Review: Incomplete - probably best for people who know her personally
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 02 25, 2013
Another freebie from Amazon - which means that it's hard to be TOO critical, since I didn't pay for it.At the heart of the story is Misty's husband who dies unexpectedly and whom she suspects is the victim of murder. She details the ordeals that she has to go through to move on with her life, reconcile with his grown children, the financial repercussions of suddenly being single, etc. as well as tracking down a murderer on her own.Unfortunately, after pages and pages and pages - she ends her search. She decides that since knowing how he died won't bring him back, it doesn't matter. Which is fine, since her faith seems to be supporting her, except it makes for an unfulfilling book. I sympathize with her loss, but this memoir is probably really best only for people who know her or her husband and outsiders like myself will find little to take away from this book.The book also needs some editing. There are several grammatical and spelling mistakes, including an inconsistent way of spelling the author's own name (listed on the cover as "Misty"). There is also a bit of story editing needed to round out the characters. For example, she talks about meeting her husband who has a 'troubled past' but doesn't talk about any of the details until after she's doing investigating and talking to the FBI about his death -- at which point it is casually dropped in that her husband had been part of some serious criminal enterprises and those people start popping up. But it's never really outlined that A+B=C, I believe because she wants to protect her identity a little bit, but it's difficult to read when someone pops up and the author just quickly introduces them like "oh yeah, this lady was married to the mob boss and also used to be my roommate and she stole an entire vault of diamonds that I still have hiding in my backyard" or whatever (not actually from the story, but you catch my drift).