Eric Koester

I won a copy of this book through a LibraryThing giveaway. It arrived beautifully packaged, with a letter from the author and his daughters, and a silver quill pen. I can tell the author put a lot of love into this book but sadly the story did not live up to its potential. The writing read like a first draft and would have benefited from an editor, both for the length of the book and the writing itself. It was very hard to get into the story and ultimately I chose to put the book aside instead of laboring through to finish it.… (more)

Overall I enjoyed my read of the Pennymores. I thought the design was original and the characters were well written. However, I did struggle with the pacing of the book. I felt that the author would spend a fair amount of time at one location and then would jump quite suddenly to another location. He would then spend little time there and jump into another location. This pacing made it hard to follow the storyline at times. In addition, I felt like I missed a good rise to the climax of the story. This story almost could have been multiple books to help develop the story further. Therefore, if you are interested in the premise, I would say go for it but this book would not go on my "read it again" pile.… (more)