Review: 3.5 stars  OK
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 4, 2011
The book was not bad - considering it was free - but it could have been so much better.  The beginning and ending were interesting enough to hold my attention, but the middle dragged on FOREVER.  The author spent most of the book endlessly repeating the angst between the H/h - over and over - as if the reader could ever forget it.IMO, the book could have been much improved by replacing the redundancy with:1.  Elaborating on the 11 brides brought to marry the miners.  That could have been a book by itself but was barely touched on.2. While the ending was different and I was pleasantly surprised it was not cookie-cutter, it wrapped up too quickly in my opinion with a lot of time left out which could have been interesting if expanded upon.When books are free I tend to give them a bit more leeway, but I wish this was a first draft because the bones are good but it needs some reworking.