Review: Could have been a good story with better editing
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 23, 2013
I got this collection for free after seeing it on the Kindle Buffett list.  This is a good story which was lost due to bad editing. There were a lot of grammar issues in the book and the author went way overboard with her thesaurus.  The author used descriptors for everything and sometimes the descriptors were used incorrectly.  The author tried to be complex by using a lot of words and it was hard to read.  For instance "Ms. Emma was progressing around her porch watering her flowers" vs. Ms. Emma was moving around on the porch watering her flowers.  The first part of Book 1 was way too slow. Even though the main character had a rough time making it after the mom died she seemed like a simpleton with sociopathic tendencies and was extremely unsympathetic. The second book was more interesting and better than Book 1 and Book 3 was just a prelude to what I assume will be book 4.  I am not sure that I would recommend to others.