Review: I'm actually torn between 1 and 2 stars...
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 06 15, 2014
I read all three books and loved the protagonists, Agnes and Eleanor and the hijinks they get up to, but the writing of these novels was just deplorable. I was constantly fixing the grammar in my mind and cringing at the repetition.  I don't know how many times Johns stated that Agnes was seventy-one and Eleanor was eighty-two...every page?  It sure seemed that way.  Oh, and Eleanor is a lousy driver.  I think she may repeat herself like this so that she doesn't forget important things about her characters, like their hobbies.  In book one, Agnes is an avid vegetable gardener constantly worried about watering her plants - including her tomatoes.  In book two, (spoiler alert) Agnes gives the sheriff mouth to mouth resuscitation after he's eaten a tomato, but gasp!  She's allergic to tomatoes and ends up hospitalized...um, no.  Did she not know this when she was gardening all those years?  There was certainly no mention of it in book one.Maybe I needed to wait another thirty years until I was an octogenarian before I read this series and things like this wouldn't bother me because then I wouldn't remember these pesky details either.