Review: I'd give it a 3.5
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 09 9, 2013
While Phoebe Deane was a pretty decent read, the typos really took away from the experience and sometimes the author dragged out descriptions of nature, that just weren't necessary.  The book also starts off, kind of slow.  But it picks up a couple of chapters in and it gets really good about 2/3 into the book.  If I could have given this book a 3.5, I would have.The characters were a tad bit "off-centered" to me.  Phoebe has the patience of JOB, is a hard worker, loves to read/learn and is quite naive; her brother is a kind man, with intelegent interests, but referred to as mentally slow (later in story) and his wife is a BITTER woman.  Miranda is apparently from the wrong side of the bed and raised by her grandmother (a lady), yet her dialect is that of a slave or lower class and quite hard to follow.  I found myself having to re-read lines repeatedly to understand what she was saying.If you can look past these things, the story itself (to me) was a good one.  My version of the book was free.