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You should let the person be able to read along.

Would you try another book from Laura Marx Fitzgerald and/or Jessica Almasy?

Maybe.

Did Jessica Almasy do a good job differentiating all the characters? How?

Yeah sure.

If this book were a movie would you go see it?

Maybe

Any additional comments?

You should really let people be able to read along. Maybe people want to read along and or check the page. you should think about changing this.

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