Review: This girl needs better friends and boyfriend asap!
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 23, 2014
Well, the stories are fun, local and feel very spot on with transporting you an island.  And the hippie tarot reading grocery store clerk is spot on for a friend of mine.  But....SHEESH!!!  SPOILER SPOILERISH SPOILERSThis poor girl is dealing with the most unspeakable murder of her mother and a lunatic in the present day...and her friends are cold shouldering her for not being there for them?  Blech. The books center on the whole concept of extended native family but in real life if anyone I knew couldn't accept that their Rookie of the Year award meant NOTHING to me compared to the reveal of my father and the murder of my mother - I'd toss that friendship or relationship out the door.  Much less compare them to family.The heroine is kick ass and fun, but her subservient attitude to keeping her friends happy and her inability to just some out and speak the truth already is annoying.  Going somewhere where there is reasonable doubt YOU might be murdered and not telling anyone?  Almost as annoying.  Not telling your brother about the whole situation when it involves his father and someone should know where you are?  Beyond annoying.The writing style is sparse, nothing poetic or romantic really, and the dialogue is a little stilted,  but the story is humorous and fun as long as you don't look too deeply at these issues.