schopflin's review
2.0
2.5. There's a lot to admire in the writing, but this feels like an update in several series characters lives, squeezed into a short book, rather than a full novel. There are some powerful individual stories, but each one feels rushed through and oddly distant. Some of the previous books are first-person narrations which of course makes a difference but I think that Ella feels short on personality almost as if the writer couldn't identify with a working class girl. I haven't read 'Ella at the Wells' so I could be wrong in this.
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