Review: This is a keeper!!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 25, 2013
This a book I heartily recommend - a good story with believable characters (for the most part) & moving drama that avoids the soppy, trite & melodramatic. Another plus, for me at least, is the lack of gratuitous sex & violence that so many "best selling" authors use to fill out their books.  Ms. Gardener manages to tell a moving story about the tough & dirty '30s, holds your interest & is believable - not over the top. Well done! I am definitely looking forward to the third book; probably, even more than the second one. To be sure, a cliffhanger ending helps to hook you - but I don't feel cheated, just eager for the next installment.Some reviewers were upset that there were unresolved issues; but, I feel this is very true to life where some issues can take years while others are never resolved. After all, life is not a 30 minute TV programme.Again, a great story & I am eagerly awaiting the 3rd.