Review: Good story, but had some annoying issues
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 15, 2013
This was a good story.  I enjoyed the plot and the characters, but there were some issues that really drove me crazy*There were way too many exclamation points!!!! Just about every conversation in the book involved exclamation points.  It was very distracting and did not make sense.  Even parts where it says "he grumbled" would be followed by an !*The book takes place in Virginia, but the author is obviously not American (Australian I am guessing).  I am a firm believer of writing what you know.  Books should take place in an area the author has lived, or at least spent a significant amount of time in. Shopping carts were referred to as "trolleys" the words bloody and bloke were used often,and the whole sentence structure throughout the book was just not "American" .  I was finding myself reading the book with an Austrian accent in my head.  I decided to just pretend they lived in Australia and that made it a little less annoying.*The book was written with two separate points of view, but there was not much difference in the two characters 'voices' Both main charters had very similar inner monologs.I may sound nit picky, but when I read I like to get carried away and lost in the story.  Things like this distract me and ruin the flow, therefor bringing me back to the reality that it is 'just a book' and that makes it not as fun to read.I think this author has a great imagination and really good stories to tell.  I am on the fence about reading her other books though, because I worry they will have the same issues that annoy me.