Review: AT LEAST TRY TO MAKE THE STORY REAL
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 04 26, 2013
This story lost me in the first 5% of the book.  Pearl is from Arizona (where I live and have traveled the entire state), and has only seen the dull green of cactus.  Cactus grow in both the low and high desert, where there are trees (green) and riots of wild flowers, so there is bright green and red and yellow and orange and blue and . . .  Then she gets to Oregon, and the first thing she sees are the red and yellow apples on the trees and the blooming cherry trees.  In Oregon, cherry trees bloom from March to May, depending on the location and variety, and apples (blooming at the same time) are ripe from late summer to late fall.  This kind of thing just distracts me from the story.  Is it too much to ask someone to set a stage where there is some reality?I went back to try to finish this book, and only got through another 10%.  She is from Tucson, which has tons of "green", and is over-looked by Mt. Lemon, which has tall green pine trees and a ski resort.  It is also a college town with the large University of Arizona.  She says she does not have much experience because she was home schooled, but by who?  Her mother left when she was only 10, and it was just her, her father and her 7 year younger brother.  If her father worked, who stayed with the children and schooled them?  And she goes out to pick apples to make pies for supper that night, but then they have the peach pies she made that day??? Even for free, I spent too much on this book because it was a waste of my time.