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Sweet Virginia (Out of Line collection) : By – Caroline Kepnes

Caroline Kepnes’s Sweet Virginia is part of Out of Line, an incisive collection of funny, enraging, and hopeful stories of women’s empowerment and escape

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By – Caroline Kepnes

Sweet Virginia by Caroline Kepnes is about a lady named Shelby who cheerfully lives in a fantasy world. She is addicted to Hallmark romantic movies and can’t acknowledge that her real like may not match the little screen. She is married, has a child and the ideal American home. She cherishes her work. still, life isn’t exactly the ideal story she needs and expects.

It might sound senseless, however I continuously ended up scoffing over the serious deal these characters made over the dog getting free and being hit by a truck. It’s the reason for Shelby’s mom move in! “Goodness, Shelby got the dog killed, so she can’t be trusted with her child.” That struck me as absurd. I don’t despise dogs – I’ve had them the greater part of my life, cats as well – yet the manner in which these characters nagged that coincidental death struck me as absurd needless excess. dog demise aside, I discovered the mother to be a constant irritation, and the twist being immature to the point that it didn’t sound good to me. I felt potential was on a superficial level, however Kepnes didn’t give us enough to make it much else then that: surface.

Sweet Virginia is the third of the “Out of Line” collection. The writer skilfully spoofs those emotions most ladies on occasion, being gotten unsuspecting overpowered by those undesirable and startling “obligations” that make up quite a bit of our lives. Shelby can’t see the higher perspective and progressively gets disengaged with the truth of her life.

I seldom quit reading a book, particularly a super-short “one hour read,” and particularly when it’s free for Kindle Unlimited. This one, I was unable to read more than two chapters without getting disturbed at Shelby. I got suckered by the mistaken arrangement of this continuous flow story as “romance.” It’s not romance. It’s not even wonderful. On the off chance that I want to read about the State of Women These Days, I wouldn’t look in “romance” for it.

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Current date Saturday , 15 August 2026

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