Review: Couldn't relate to Lena
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 23, 2013
A couple of other folks have pretty much summed this up for me so given I hate to be redundant, this is probably going to be short.The story has lots of potential, but the build up was a little slow. I love the historical aspects of the story. I'm not a huge history buff, but I do love reading about Native American history and adding in a mystery to boot just made the story more interesting for me. However, although I read this book fairly quickly, I did get a bit bogged down in Lena and her emotional issues. Don't get me wrong, I can totally empathize with her loss and how hard it must be to lose a parent. But, as someone else noted, it has been more than 5 YEARS. Although you never forget and as you reminisce, you may get a bit sad, her emotions just seemed too extreme to me. Her mother and sister, have learned to carry on with living, yet Lena ran and she still cannot move on? I understand she was very close to her father, but for his loss to cause her to not want to come home, to lie to her family, and to push away her best friend and the love of her life? I just could not relate to that at all and it did actually detract from the story, for me at least.