Reviewed by Louisa
TITLE: Going Off Grid 
SERIES: States of Love
AUTHOR: S.J.D. Peterson
PUBLISHER: Dreamspinner Press
LENGTH: 78 Pages
RELEASE DATE: March 23rd 2018
BLURB:
Clay and Elliott are working toward a dream—working sixty-hour weeks for one of the oil companies that recently sprung up in North Dakota. The pay is good, but is it a fair trade for never seeing each other? The point becomes moot when the company folds, like so many others, and the couple is left with a difficult choice.
Should they find comparable work somewhere else, or is it time to throw caution to the wind and go after their goal—years earlier than they intended?
What they’ve always wanted is to be together and have time to enjoy it, so they follow their hearts. They’re going off the grid and fixing up an old cabin so they can be self-sufficient. But when they go from all the conveniences of the modern world to outhouses, solar power, a shoestring budget, and more mosquitos than they ever thought possible, will they find there’s such a thing as too much time together?
REVIEW:
S.J.D. Peterson is a wonderful writer. I have always enjoyed how her stories flow and weave a tale. This is a fairly short story, a novella, but that doesn’t detract for me from the story. Though the storyline isn’t complicated it is still good. The blurb clues you in on what happening as Clay and Elliott change their lives and start to go off grid.
I like the dynamic between the two men. It is hard to have all your dreams start to happen and then need to reconcile it with the reality of life. And to be self-sufficient and isolated is always rather hard, add to that the fact these two men haven’t spent this much time in each other’s company and good reading occurs.
I also like the setting. The story has a lot of focus on the repair of the cabin. It is a good backdrop and timeline for the book. And being a big fan of renovations and construction in general I enjoyed this aspect of the story.
Not being very long didn’t worry me. It was the perfect length book to read in an evening. And I have always enjoyed Ms. Peterson’s way with words. Overall this was a great read from a good serries that I have enjoyed many of.
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