Review: I liked it a lot!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 1, 2014
First off for the spell checkers out there. When I read I read the story and not the words and especially not the individual letters. The purpose of writing a story is too take your reader on a trip. I thought Mr. Morris did a great job of telling me a story. When you tell a story you OFTEN don't use the perfect verbiage that you might use in your doctoral dissertation. That is because it is a story and SHOULD be told in the voice of the people in the story. I also am a writer AND I live in the South. I often use words like y'all and ain't in my stories. I'm sorry if it is offensive but that is the way the people in my stories often talk. A person from Boston or whatever might even say "you'se guys".The story is about TEENAGERS! Post pubescent kids have sex drives and that is just the way it is. THAT is reality. I thought he handled it both realistically and with good taste. Actually I think if he had gone for a more realistic handling of this it would have included a LOT more sexual tension and activity.Some people don't think that it is realistic that kids this age COULD deal with things like this as well as these kids did. Let me tell you, My Dad graduated high-school when he was 15. WW2 was in high gear and he couldn't enlist because he was too young. He went to Dallas and worked in an aircraft factory for a year and then enlisted in the Navy the day after his 16th birthday. His Grandfather was in the trenches in France when he was that age. One ancestor fought at Shiloh in the Civil War when he was 14! Another died at the battle of San Jacento when Texas defeated the Mexicans and earned our freedom. He was 17! Just because we don't ask a lot of kids these days does NOT mean that they can't do amazing things.Sex...Dale Evans, Roy Rogers wife got married the first time when she was 12. Laura Engels Wilder (Little House on the prairie) eloped and married at 12 also. A lot of "kids" in the past were "adults" at a very young age. I have no doubt that if today’s kids were tossed in the fire they would adapt, grow up and deal.The story was engaging and well worth reading. The characters were interesting and attractive. I finished it and immediately bought the next one and loved it too. I'm hoping for more...