I haven't finished this audio book. I believe I'm on Chapter 6, though.
Karen Kingsbury is an awful writer. I don't mind the Christian stuff, honestly! But her actual writing technique sucks! She suffers from the same affliction some Harlequin romance writers have--she describes some things in such minute, boring-ass detail. I find myself skipping through entire tracks on the CDs, waiting for the character to stop musing internally so the story will start to progress again.
She also has no idea what a 10-year-old actually sounds like--her version of a 10-year-old girl sounds more like a 5 or 6 year old.
Ok, one gripe about the Christian stuff: the little girl is comforted by the thought that God has a plan for her, and her grandmother tells her that God means for her to do great things. Know what lies on the road to great things? Child sex slavery.
I am going to continue to skip around the story on the CDs, b/c even though it's hard to shut the critical part of my mind down that hates this book, I'd still like to know how it ends.
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