Review: Very enjoyable
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 21, 2014
I really loved the Alexanders! The character development was great and I felt like I new everyone in the book personally. I couldn't put either one down. The prequel was a great story, but felt like it could be independent even though it was about the Alexanders as well. The one critique that I have (which was the only reason I didn't give it 5 stars) is that the transitions from one scene to another were, at times, so abrupt that I would need  to go back to see if I had missed something when I couldn't figure out how so-and-so ended up in the scene that had been playing in my head. It wasn't a catastrophe, it just pulled me out of the story, which really only bummed me out because I was so immersed. A line or two at the beginning of a scene (not paragraph) which switched characters would fix that though. I would definitely purchase more of this author's work. I will also say that given the amount of characters in the Alexander family, it was an impressive feat that the author could get me to really know and love so many of them by the end.Bravo!