Review: Shattered Lives
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 14, 2012
This book had a lot of good points but had an amateur feel to it. The method in which the main characters of Flynn and Maggie are introduced was good. You get their story from the time they were little until they meet in St. Jo.Their stories were very depressing. I realize living during this time period was not all sunshine and roses but page after page of mean, nasty stuff or dreadful living conditions got a bit much. With that said, I wanted to continue reading to see how their lives would change for the better (because I was sure they would) and how they would eventually meet.The author did a great job of showing what the Civil War could do to men when they returned home. She also showed how a weak parent could affect the life of a child during that time period.The amateur part came in the actual delivery of the story through lots of choppy sentences and extraneous details that seemed irrelevant to the story. I've read better and I've read worse.