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This book was a little slow, overly verbose and meandering. The magical realism impacting history theme was similar and already done better in a book that came out earlier in the year, "Memoirs of the Senator's Wife." However, "Memoirs" storyline was intricate and interesting. "Waters" prose were overly wordy and pretentious at times, leading the reader out of the belief that anyone would ever think in the manner that the character thought. I was a little offended that the hero with "superman powers" was taking some of the credit away from Harriet Tubman who was really the heroine in history. I seriously hope that schools do not use this book in their curriculum, as Black women have few female super heroes as Harriet Tubman was so her accomplishments in anyway being attributed to the hero is not appropriate. I got the impression that many of the positive reviews are probably paid or friends. Although "Waters" did have a few moments they were so few and far between it was hard to make it to the end of the book and was not worth the time it took to read.