Review: A poor follow-up
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 07 25, 2013
I read the first book in the series and thought it was decent. Maybe a bit sappy, certainly with some questionable language and dialogue (in the sense that it's often very dated and sometimes over-the-top), but decent enough that I wanted to see what happened next. So I bought this one.Unfortunately, this one was not a good follow-up. We barely hear about two of the sisters. Sammy, rather than being her own person and going through her own changes, is merely a fairy godmother/wise granny-type to a handful of other characters. This felt like treading water, waiting for things to happen. Not impressive at all.The book also had a number of problems with homophones and words that just didn't seem to make sense in context, like the author or editor wasn't sure what they meant but thought they sounded good. And there were tons of unnecessary paragraph breaks. It really interrupted the flow of the book and often caused confusion over who said what.If there are subsequent books, which I'm guessing there will be after the clunky stopping point, I won't be reading them.