Review: Beetles?  Beetles?  C'mon!
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 09 4, 2013
This is not really a review as I'm not finished yet.  But I needed to say something about what I read last night asap.  So I clicked one star so someone would read this.About half-way thru the book (which so far isn't bad), the female main character (she's 13 or 14) is in her dad's car with him driving.  She starts humming a song and the father says, "I didn't know you liked the Beetles."  She says, "Who are the Beetles?".  He then says "they were popular in the 60's".Now there are 3 issues here.  First, misspelling of the Beatles name once can be excused, but twice?  C'mon!  Second, this is NOT a story about some people living in the back-woods somewhere without internet service or television.  These people are living in a regular house in some suburb in a normal city.  Thus, the Beatles would be heard just about everyday!  Third, the author does not say when the present day story takes place, but she references letters from someone in the past that has dates as late as 1960 and some letters dated as recent as 2000.  So it appears the present story is pretty current.  This also means the main character will have definitely heard of the Beatles!Don't know about the rest of you, but I hate it when an author insults the readers intelligence.  Like I say above, I'm half-way thru and it's not too bad, and I will revise this review when I'm finished reading.  But I really needed to vent after reading the above exchange between Dad and daughter (and the misspelling of the Beatles name)!