Review: A pleasant lightweight read
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 16, 2012
Nice brief read. Mother has a secret in her past, daughter is a troubled teenager, there's a little romance for both of them but no sex. The writing is very fine and the descriptions are excellent, but the characters don't have much depth, and what depth there is gets piled into the last couple of chapters- as well as most of the plot motivation. The last chapter wraps things up neatly but a bit abruptly. Interspersed through the chapters are some traditional folk stories- they're well told and fit the plot, but they also pad the length- without them this would be novella length. Rather than make this book 1 of a trilogy the author should go back and give the characters a little more realism.