Review: Good Read
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 2, 2013
I enjoyed these 3 books. I believe it needs some editing and the plot needs to be tightened up. There were still unanswered questions at the end. My biggest quibble is about the 5th (maybe 6th) chapter in the 3rd book where a person is illegally entering the US across the border with Canada "20 miles east of Buffalo". The author needs to look at a map of NY state. Yes - there are border crossings between the 2 countries in Buffalo and surrounding areas. However, at all points in this area, the US & Canada are separated by water: Lake Erie, the Niagara River (with that really big, really dangerous natural wonder known as Niagara Falls)& Lake Ontario. 20 miles due east of Buffalo puts this character in the neighborhood of Clarence, Akron, Pendelton or Batavia, depending on where the measuring starts. To reach the border from any of these suburbs & towns, you would have to go north a number of miles (30, 40, 50?)& into the middle of Lake Ontario. Just saying....this is something that could have been easily determined by the author with minimal research.Sneaking across the border in the Buffalo area requires either a long, cold swim or a boat. Given how tightly the border in this area is monitored, the author would have been better to place his character in northern Vermont..or Maine..One reviewer complained about this series being christian fiction - which I always try NEVER to read. This is not so much in your face as other christian fiction I have inadvertently downloaded. I never like it when authors attempt to preach their view of religion through his/her book characters, but I was able to overlook this character flaw since it was not so crazy as I've seen in other books.All in all, a good story but the author would be served best by keeping track of the major items in his plot and then making sure that these issues get resolved. Just letting them slowly get lost by the 3rd book is not a good sign for continued success.