Review: Troubled Youth and a Troubled Mom
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 1, 2013
First off, I would like to suggest that readers of this Kindle ebook back up and read the opening segment. Your Kindle ebook will automatically opening to Chapter One. You'll need to back up to read a nice piece about Sally Spencer, the woman whom inspired this short story. Sally is the founder of Youth Assisting Youth - YAY, a mentorship program where teens help teens.Good Neighbors is a simple, quick read about a woman and her son who are facing some life challenges. Things seem to spiral from one bad situation to another.Adults can find themselves in stressful situations - divorce, money troubles, addictions, deaths, etc. and it will affect the children. This story is a good example of that. Meredith is down on her luck, making bad choices, and her son Leo is caught in the crossfire.I wish Meredith had been a stronger character. I guess I anticipated a book in honor of such a great woman as Sally Spencer would have a strong female lead - an inspirational and likeable lead. I didn't find Meredith to be either.  I also didn't find Jed to be very inspiring.There are also numerous spacing typos in this Kindle freebie. I hope Amazon and Harlequin fix this.So my rating falls more to a 3.5 rounded up to 4 for rating purposes. I feel the author was trying to portray a troubled home and the effects on the kids - for that, well done.