Reviewed by Dee
TITLE: Any Way the Wind Blows
AUTHOR: Carlin Grant
PUBLISHER: Less Than Three Press
LENGTH: 48 pages
RELEASE DATE: March 23, 2016
BLURB:
Callie lives on the road, trading labor for food and lodging through a farm work-exchange program. She’s perfectly content with the life she’s created, but it is shaken up when she meets Jo, a mechanic and sister of Callie’s latest boss.
For the first time, Callie begins reconsidering the choices she’s made. But Jo’s life is far more complicated than her own and as family tensions rise, they threaten to pull Callie in, and her growing bond with Jo might not be reason enough to stay.
REVIEW:
This story is told in first person and from both Callie and Jo’s point of views, so you get to know the characters reasonably well.
Jo is a mechanic who did a stint in Iraq and Callie lives on the road, working as a farm hand. Early on in the story it comes to light Callie is Asexual and A-romantic, in other words the idea of being sexually or romantically attracted to another person is foreign to her. With that said she is more than capable of friendship and her and Jo quickly become close friends.
Jo’s family go to pains to hook her up with Aaron, something Jo wants no part of. Through her friendship with Callie she realizes she too is A-romantic, which deepens their friendship. One could say they fit together like two peas in a pod.
For me the story lacked any depth. It was ‘nice’ but nothing grabbed me and pulled me in. The epilogue jumps two years ahead and with so much missing information I didn’t find myself endeared by what unfolded.
The amount of grammatical errors, the overuse of the word just, and poor sentence structure, didn’t help an already lackluster plot. I know I see errors more than others but some of these were glaring! For example – “I just I watched to oil drain.” And this sentence, “…pulling my curls into neater pigtail braids than usual, even bothering to shave and put on a necklace.” This reads like the woman had facial hair, maybe she did? But if I was to hazard a guess she was referring to shaving body hair.
It’s the first story I’ve read which I’d call, acquaintances to friends. While it didn’t grab me, readers who don’t need any form of romance and/or little conflict in their stories, might enjoy the story more than I did.
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