Scan barcode
A review by monroeps
Capricorn Cravings by Trish Jackson
3.0
Needed a fact checker
This book was very confusing in the beginning. I almost did not get through the first couple of chapters. After I understood a little of what the author was trying to express, the reading went a little easier. It was not a good beginning. It was if the author was trying too hard to grab our attention, and lost it in the process. It was a decent book, but there were other issues with the book that as a Colorado native, I could not overlook. Now I know why they have fact checkers for the newspapers. One fact that stood out was the time change from CO to FL; if it is 4:30 am in CO, it is 6:30 am in FL. Trish made it sound like it was the other way around. The other real-life fact is that Colorado’s county fairs are before their state fair. The Colorado State Fair is always the last one or two weeks in August and ends usually the first week in September. In the book the author wrote a county fair going on in mid-September, impossible in real-life. I live in Colorado and these things stuck out in my mind and distracted me from the story. I know it is fiction but I want a book to be as real as it can get and this one missed a few points
This book was very confusing in the beginning. I almost did not get through the first couple of chapters. After I understood a little of what the author was trying to express, the reading went a little easier. It was not a good beginning. It was if the author was trying too hard to grab our attention, and lost it in the process. It was a decent book, but there were other issues with the book that as a Colorado native, I could not overlook. Now I know why they have fact checkers for the newspapers. One fact that stood out was the time change from CO to FL; if it is 4:30 am in CO, it is 6:30 am in FL. Trish made it sound like it was the other way around. The other real-life fact is that Colorado’s county fairs are before their state fair. The Colorado State Fair is always the last one or two weeks in August and ends usually the first week in September. In the book the author wrote a county fair going on in mid-September, impossible in real-life. I live in Colorado and these things stuck out in my mind and distracted me from the story. I know it is fiction but I want a book to be as real as it can get and this one missed a few points