Review: Way too short and way too simple
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 06 1, 2013
First a comment on all the five star reviews for this novel as well as most other books reviewed on Amazon.  It reminds me of Garrison Keillor's desciption of Lake Woebegone "Where all the children are above average."  All the books can not be great; some are better than others.  When most books are routinely given 5 stars how can we decide which are best?In the case of this novel it has a greater percentage of stars than "The Road", the Pulitzer award winning novel by Cormac McCarthy. Give me a break."The Sky Used to be Blue" has 26 chapters packed into 50 pages of content(this being on a Kindle Fire I had to count by hand-- it didn't take 30 seconds) But the fifty page count is an overstatement as the "chapters" were as short as 4 words (chapter 23) and surrounded by empty page.Having made my point on the dearth of content, I feel short changed further by the novel's utter simplicity-- forget Young Adult as a descriptor, this was elementary school level vocabulary and story structure. This may have been a conscious effort by the author to portray a women of diminished capacity, but it made for a dreary read.