Review: Dark Side of Carolina
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 06 30, 2014
This is southern hospitality at its worst.  Cedar’s love for Boone is hardly enough to make the story appealing when most of the people are so obnoxious.  The most likeable character is Chigger.  I’m not sure why, but I continued reading.  About 76% of the way through, the pace picked up, but the proof reading fell apart.  The number of missing words increased.  Wrong words (like “your” instead of “you’re” and “color” instead of “cooler”) made reading frustrating.Finally, I finished the book.  The ending wrapped up most of mystery, but it too easily disposed of people whose animosity was never explained.  The attitudes of Lamar and Hoyt were strangely reformed, but Boone never revealed the maturity he would have needed to qualify for the security work he did in the Navy.I’ll give it two stars for the idea of what could have been a really good book.