Review: Somewhat Depressing Period Piece
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 6, 2013
This series has very, very little to do the laird who's only mentioned very briefly in passing. It's the story of poor tenant farmers and a very dysfunctional family with a horrific, selfish, bitter, meddling mother. I almost hated reading parts of it as it was so depressing. Having said that, I did finish it and even bought the second book in the series. The author writes best the dark moments, but on a superficial level. I felt a very distant observer of all the mother's machinations, however horrible. None of the characters made me really feel their emotions. There is something there though that kept me reading, though I'm not sure why. I loved the descriptions of the countryside and did come away with a sense of how hard it must have been to eke out a living in those hard times.