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A Beautiful Loan by Mary Costello

A Beautiful Loan

A Novel

by Mary Costello

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  • Mar 2026, 224 pages
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Gail_G

Boring
This book failed to provide a real story or plot. The main character was unlikeable and too much in her own head. She didn't seem to have any sense of herself and spent her life aligning with and completely being the person someone else wanted her to be, and then being unhappy about it. She didn't know how to be a functioning person without someone else setting the parameters. I'm glad it was such a short book because otherwise I wouldn't have finished it. I would not recommend the book.

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