Review: Wow! What a great find!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 12, 2012
I buy and grab free books for my Kindle all the time. Way more than I can find the time to read. So often, when I get around to reading the book, I don't remember what it was supposed to be about. With a real book, I'd flip it over to see what the summary/description said. I never do that on my Kindle, just start reading and know that I wouldn't have it if I didn't think it was going to be good.I just finished The Ninth Step thinking it was a book I had borrowed from the library and amnow happy to find out it was a book I own! This book was so good. It's not the typical chick-lit that I usually lean toward in summer. It wasn't a quick read. I loved the depth of the characters. Their lives are messy, they have flaws. The story doesn't end in a nice little happy ending but you will see the evolution of the relationships. While I was silently cheering that Cotton and Livie would reunite, the complexity that would bring had me fretting about that exact possibility.I'm always amazed to find indie authors who can write with this quality and wonder how is it that the rest of the world doesn't know about them. Barbara Taylor Sissel has the talent to keep readers interested, to prevent boredom and certainly avoids the risk of readers putting the book down and wandering to another story. Another to add to my list of favorites!