Review: Good story falls right off the cliff into nothingness half way through
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 05 24, 2013
This story started out with a bang.  Sara is a widow, not young, and with a tragic past.  Sam is a hard man who, much to his surprise, falls for Sara.  The story of how they come to love each other is heartwarming, even though Sam's transformation into a decent human being is a bit abrupt.Without revealing any more than the product description tells us, Sara and Sam set off on a journey through eastern Canada and the US, and suddenly the story just disappears into a travelogue and description of the people that they meet. It's like the author is shouting "Look at all the marvelous research I did to let you know that a whole bunch of this stuff is authentic history!"So, if you read this book, skip all the chapters after they leave on their trip (Chapter 18) and go right to the last chapter.  Little in Chapters 19 through 28 has much to do with the plot.  You won't have missed a darned thing except being irritated at trying to figure out the relevance of these chapters to the story.The author should have cut about 50% of the content and called this a novella.  It would have been a much more satisfying read.