Very short books in a very long series at $5 a pop!!!
588821
My granddaughter loves this series but I was shocked at how short these books are. I will find another series to buy for her. I don't think these are worth $5 each.
1831109
What a joke. Why should I pay $10 for a book that is sold for $7 in paperback. If the snooks in the Olivia series were $4.99  I'd buy them all, even the ones I already own in hardcover
4121124
I can't say too much as the 1st. book was free.  However, I certainly am not going to pay $2.99 each for the balance of the story since each book is only minimal pages!  The Author should have held off and published as one complete book!  I won't be looking into anymore of his books.
1831133
These books are not worth the price even if they are free.
There is no way I would waste time and money on the rest of the series. The cost of the next 3 are $8.99 and $14.97 for the next 3 at this time.
4433997
This short 'free' novella was just a come on to purchase more of this series!
It wasn't that good that I would want to pay for any of the continuing "serial' type of this
series.  I wouldn't even order any more even if they were free!
2812942
The writing is good; the story is good... but these "books" are way too short to be worth the money. I read the first 3 of the series. Can't be spending $0.99 every couple of hours.
2790261
These books doesn't even cost like $1,000,000 and this books it is will cost $20.90!!!

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I found on these sites on the Lulu.com it is will cost $20.90 and not  $1,010.38!!!!
4765897
$2.99 a book for a few pages and yet another cliff hanger? This author should be ashamed of doing so! The series is great but should be a novel book not a few pages per book. This author is banking off people who pay the 2.99 a book! Sell out! I will stick to other authors who value the readers and not their pockets books!
34822
What a waste of money, it should be more clearly explained how short this is, and how many characters it tells about that I can't even remember, much less care what happened to them! You could literally read this in less than an hour. The author should be ASHAMED to sell this as what it's being billed as, and WAY over priced for what I got!!!!
3481849
Well the writing was good but to pay $2.99 for a few pages that I read this book and the one before also $2.99 in half an hour REALLY!!! I will not be buying any more of his 10 to 15 min book reads. I can get real whole novels for that price. Still kicking myself for not checking number of pages on this book before buying it. The author has definitely lost a reader in me!!!!!!
1710857
I am a huge fan of the series.  I Own the other five books in hardcover.  However, this book is just terrible.
There are about 400 pages of retelling what happened in the other five books, go ahead and insult my intelligence and assume I've forgotten what happened in all five of your books, like if I had, I would have bought the sixth book?
300 pages of oooh a cave, look a picture of a bear, lion, horse, bison, mammoth.
50 pages of Travel, travel, travel oh look a woman with horses and a wolf, travel travel travel, oh look a woman with horses and a wolf.
10 pages of my name is, my affiliation is, I'm married to, good to know you.  Every time you meet someone, ad nauseam.
And finally about 20 pages of real plot.  You could have told the entire book in 100 pages, almost zero plot and most of that boring and tired.  Someone jealous of Ayla tries to get even for her being better than them and they get their comeuppance.  Oh dear Jondalar is with another woman he must not love me anymore, blah blah blah!  Sound familiar?
And Cattails!!!!  There must be eight places in the book where she details all the parts of the cattail you can use.  Ok, tell me once, I got it especially since you've told me at least once in every other book you wrote.
Now if she had wanted to write a travel guide of all the ancient caves with picture in Europe, she should have done that instead of bore the crap out of her readers with it.  And I paid $12.99 for this, on Kindle?  Not even a tree version?  I need my head examined.
DISAPPOINTED!!!!!!!!
2536061
The books are very very short. To make matters worse they all start out repeating the previous book for a chapter or two.
3955220
I should have paid closer attention to the fact, it is a very short book!  This is just a scam to get you to keep buying books in the series after the 1st was dangled in front of you for free!  A lot of authors are doing it, but I do not care for the practice.  I will not be buying the 3rd book, I'm severing my ties with this one.
3754952
Take heed boys and girls this is not a new Work, or a long read. This book is only 94 pages of 20-font reading. I complained to F Paul Wilson and he replied that this was not a rip off and that collectors love this sort of stuff. Yah, but I am not a collector and I do not appreciate spending $20.00 for a 15 min read. I do not blame Mr. Wilson but I do blame Publishing houses that try to sell short stories at full novel prices. The price of books is already too high as it is.

Nuff  Said
3433298
I actually find it quite comical that readers would need to spend $9 to get this whole story. Each book is so brief you literally would be getting just one whole book (an electronic book) for $9. One forgettable, ill-written book by a mediocre author (sorry, chickadee, but it's true) for $9. Have you seen what you can get for $9 off of the best sellers list? And you wouldn't even have to wait months between each terrible installment!

So... the review...
I've read several of the previous reviews and I don't believe that anyone has yet to mention the fact that this book is sorely in need of an editor. For being as brief as it was it had a surprising amount of errors. I counted several just within the first few pages, which annoyed me enough to almost have me stop reading altogether... especially given the fact that your/you're, their/there/they're, and loose/lose were among the authors mistakes (I mean, really?). Holy Pet Peeve, Batman!

Another pet peeve is that this author chose to half-a** the Scottish vernacular, writing some conversations using Scottish vocabulary/brogue and others not at all - even slipping modern colloquialisms in whenever the mood arose. My opinion? Either jump in feet first or don't do it at all... none of this "Och!" in one sentence, and then "oh, girl" in the next. It's like watching a bunch of people with Multiple Personality Disorder. Pick a lane for Pete's sake.

And I'm sure there doesn't need to be another corroboration that the first story in this apparent "series" was poorly managed. We are literally provided with a mere handful of days (4 days, to be precise) in the lives of these people before we're left to scratch our heads. This might have been a successful ploy had the story and characters been developed enough to leave a lasting impression or even a stitch of attachment... but they weren't.

**Mild Spoiler**

I concur with the reviewer who mentioned that these characters exist as if in a bubble... they're definitely functioning in a vacuum. The lead gal is not believable in the slightest with her sexual/relationship/hand-fasting naivete - mainly because apparently she's surrounded by rowdy, bed-hopping whores. Oh, excuse me... "widows." Writing that type of incongruent character is done for convenience purposes so that the author has an easy road to travel. It would have been a lot more believable had Maggie and Talorc simply had a strong magnetism where Maggie had just been forced to battle her confused lust to maintain her freedom. Plus, we're never given any inkling as to why Talorc HAS to take her with him that very day... that was all conveniently glossed over as "oh, well, he's the Laird... so we'll just go with it". I really think that was all just sheer laziness.

Again, on the topic of the story ending abruptly, that was just laziness as well. That wasn't a cliffhanger - that was just bad writing, as if someone was talking and then just broke off mid-sentence leaving the listener thinking "Um... hello? You were saying?"
There wasn't even any form of resolution of any kind - for anything! I've read plenty of books that are parts of a series in every genre imaginable. This book resolved nothing. Gave nothing. Appeased nothing. You can't just take from the reader, you have to give something back. This book was selfish, shallow, and unfulfilling.

And by the way... if Deidre is going to be planted as the traitor/villain/vengeful whore, it should have been a bit more subtle. Not to mention the fact that it just seems... well... wrong that Talorc would have a woman of such loose morals be the only female companion of his "innocent," virgin bride - widow or no widow. Even barbaric Highlanders have standards. Is this a historical novel or not?
1300638
Story is O.K. but paying almost $8.00 for a small book like this is nuts.  When I bought it, I did not know the that it was going to be just little chapters for the prise.  I would like to keep going with the series, but don't think that it is worth the $8.00 when I read them in just one sitting.
1144637
I gave it a 5 star rating, due to it being a good series, however there were only 6 chapters in this book, and at least the first few chapters rehashed what had happened in the previous book...for me personally I found this annoying, it's not as though you can read this book as a standalone and if you've read the previous 3 books and enjoyed them, you don't need a reminder of the story. I thought the book was quite expensive at $4.19 for a read that took less than 2 hours to read.