Review: Tempted to get a refund and had to force myself to finish the outlandish
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 01 17, 2014
Poor Jo.  By the time we got around to her story we were at the redundant stage of the saga.  She held out the longest before falling into bed with the 3rd brother and was more homesick than the other two sisters in books 1 & 2.  But those were her only distinguishing characteristics. It would have been an OK story if not for the whole circus overload.  I mean I can understand a lion, a clown and a fat lady (I could even volunteer for that role).  But after the whole circus menagerie climbed on board a space ship, I just couldn't invest myself in such a ridiculous premise.  I mean you tell me - two weeks where a whole crap-load of people know they are leaving for the farthest reaches of the universe and someone doesn't let it slip to their great-aunt Marigold (who of course pinky-promised to take the secret to her grave) that there is a friggin' space ship in a Florida swamp?  In today's society everyone knows two minutes after a Kardashian gets knocked up.  Like there's really going to be a way to hide interplanetary U-Haul action?  Elephants and all?  No. Can't buy it.  Well, actually I did buy it. The book that is. And regretted it.  The author just took it one step too far for me.  Pity.