Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I thought I would give this book a 'second chance' so I am slogging through it again. I won't deny that Rose Wilder Lane was a complex person, BUT I really don't think that Laura Ingalls Wilder was as much an untalented ogre as this book would have us believe. I do believe that Rose was a terrific EDITOR, but I don't believe that she 'wrote' Laura's books, or that Laura couldn't write. There is plenty of evidence out there that Laura was a very adept writer. For instance, her columns and articles for the Missouri Ruralist (Rose was off in Albania at the time Laura wrote most of these, so how could she have had a hand in them? ); Laura's beautifully descriptive letters to Almanzo in "West from Home" (WHY would Rose have to write Laura's personal letters for her?). Further, as a reviewer below stated, Rose's own published works, aside from her short stories, leave much to be desired. As far as her personal life, Rose seems to have been a very depressed person who was seldom happy in her life, and blamed it on her mother. A better book, I think, is "Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder" by John Miller - better written and far more enlighting, in my opinion!