Our Favorite Songs: A Moonlighters novella

First, having seven POVs in a 300 page book made the narration feel crowded to me, and in some places things were repeated from two different POVs. Also, the ending was really rushed. Deadline, maybe? Things happened really fast, and yet explanation was at a minimum. It got all tied up in one tight bow, with just one escapee from justice and one good guy taking the fall for something that shouldn't even be against the law. It felt jarring. Like, somehow, I was supposed to read the author's mind to really get what was going on in the last 100 pages (technically, from a bunch of really short chapters, the length of that space was really about 75 pages.)

Again there are questions about God's providence that are raised but not resolved, and this time around it seemed to really stick out at me that nouns referring to God were not capitalized. That's like referring to the President of one's country as president. Weird editing choice, especially when there were multiple hes in one paragraph and simple capitalization of He would make it easy to distinguish which one is God. Juliet asks, “God, why are You doing this to me? I have been faithful. Why must I be punished?” It is never made clear that we “deserve” nothing from God, or that earth is never meant to be heaven. Instead of being grateful for the blessings they have (each other, safety despite some of their harebrained risks), they instead focus on/complain about what God has not done for them. Really...

Here's to hoping book three clears up the sisters' ungrateful attitude toward God.

Also, Juliet somehow gets a death certificate with two days or so of her husband's death. Wow, the government sure acted fast for her. Death certificates are generally not issued for a couple of weeks at best.