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Terribly written book. I am surprised the author's editor allowed it to be published this way. It was boring as can be until they attempted to get Calvin back, which was 2/3 of the way through the book. I wanted to stop reading so many times, but forced myself to finish. The first major gaff is that Ellis took a photo and wrote an article about the children for sale. How did he write an article when he didn't even talk to anyone? What did he use for material? Did he make everything up? The story never said. The time period was The Great Depression, but we never had any description of it. Seems like everyone had jobs and went about their business every day. And Ellis? He could sit at his desk and wait for inspiration to smack him in the face. I guarantee that he would have had to produce articles and type weddings, engagements, obits, etc.., to keep busy. You can't just sit at a news desk all day and do nothing. So inaccurate. The dialogue was not period correct. She used phrases like "At the end of the day .." which wasn't used until the 2000s. Ellis told the story of his shoulder being bruised by shooting a 410 shotgun. I have news for you: 410 shotguns have hardly any recoil at all. She wrote that the farmer was going to work in the fields the next day, despite it raining all night. What was he going to do - make mud pies? You can't work in the field after that much rain. When Ellis was in the hospital, she said tubes and an IV bag was hanging. In the 1930s, there were no "bags" of IV fluid. They were bottles, even used into the 1970s. Funny how Ellis always had to crank start his car and then suddenly, when the farmer was chasing them, he had electric start on his car. He just never used it before? Like I said, there are SO MANY problems with this book and I could go on forever, but I will conclude that it was one of the worst written books I have ever read. Period.