The book is chock full of cliches, and the reader is asked numerous times to suspend reality as the story unfolds.

Also, for those familiar with the area, it makes zero sense when the author tries to weave in Asheville numerous times in the story line. She writes that characters shop there while in our modern interstate society that would be well over a six hour drive. In the 40s and 50s, it would be quite a bit more. Just didn’t make sense…except the author likes Asheville and wanted to incorporate it no matter what.

The author’s overuse of similes was tiring and pulled me away from her writing. When figurative language is doing all the work, writing suffers.