I am not sure if I read the same book that everyone else
did. Here is what I feel are the Pro's
and Con's:
▲ It was a light, pop-corn type read.
▲ No sex, just innuendo.
▲ No violence, just a dead guy.
▲
I finished it.
▼The Author/Editor made a lot of mistakes, enough to pull you out of
the story occasionally and go 'Huh?'.
This might make you lose your place as you check back in the book for
some confirmations.
▼ Was there a book before this one?
I know there wasn't, but there are parts to this story that make
me think there should be...things that are assumed but never explained. For instance -why did Daisys husband get so
upset that she had a date before they got reacquainted? This detail was over-looked
and under-played. The back-story was undeveloped.
▼ The town’s
residents and especially her so-called friends are just horrid. The kids are pretty annoying too.
▼ Home-schooling seems to be a major theme and I don't like to be
preached to. I did not like how this
author treats home-schooling. Do the
kids actually ever get any lessons?
Do they really learn things while playing in the snow or video games or
even board games? Yes they read
-wonderful - but not enough educating.
▼I found this not to be a humorous book.
▼The main characters are (especially Daisy Savage) ditzy, easy to anger
and somehow unlikable. Jake was just an annoying passive/aggressive complainer.
▼ The reader goes through the book never knowing how the dead guy
died. And yes I doubled back to double-check.
All in all, I ended up doing a lot of skimming a second time
to see if I had missed something important to the story.
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