Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I grew up in a coastal community in Northeast Florida with precisely the type of landscape described so eloquently in this novel, so perhaps that’s why I am having a much more difficult time excusing the author’s blatant errors in correctly differentiating between salt and freshwater species! There are no craw dads in a salt marsh, nor will you ever catch a bream there or observe wildlife drinking the salt water from the shore. These inaccuracies combined with the bizarre dialect selected as representative of North Carolina made the reading experience surreal and even offensive. Without a doubt, the author painted pretty word pictures of this salt/fresh water marsh, but the inconsistencies were too much to overcome. The story line itself was also pretty lackluster, even ignoring its implausibility. More proof that you should stick with the adage “Write what you know”!