Review: Starts out well, ending is curiously strange
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 21, 2013
Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with a digital ARC of this book in exchange for my personal and unbiased review. Having already read Little Joe and found it lacking in plot, I was hoping to find more substance in the second book of the series. I did but felt this one went haywire. I was good with the book for about the first 75%. It was interesting, had more history of the age and the area which I again enjoyed, was a bit of a detective mystery with Shenandoah doing some sleuthing for her newspaper article, and had a bit of romance too. Then things went awry. There were alot of secondary characters to keep track of. But mainly it felt like the author wrote the outline of the book, then went back and arbitrarily plopped in random situations and events - some of which I had a hard time linking to the main story. A good example of this is in the events surrounding the ending. In my opinion, it ruined the whole book. I won't be reading the last two books in this series, which isn't to say you shouldn't. I'm just not a fan of this type of writing style.