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Childish writing, ridiculous plot
Living in the Sedona area myself, I chose this as my prime reading freebie this month. While I enjoyed being able to place events in the book with places I know, this book was frustrating to read. Most annoyingly, many of the characters' statements ended with question marks? Just like that. This occurred more than 20 times. Putting that aside, she mentions an amazing amount of trash on the trails which is not the case. I've been on the USFS Trail Patrol and Trail Maintenance groups and we have never come away with more than a small grocery bag of trash. Perhaps this was just a bit of fiction added for the sake of the story. The characters are so shallow and undeveloped that I really didn't care who lived or died. I literally stopped reading at one point just to check the author's credentials and I was stunned at her accolades. If this is a sign of things to come, prepare for a dumbing-down of the literary world.
