Down Our Road is an American family saga romance spanning the years 1976 to 2012. That is quite a large time frame and this is quite a long novel at 520 pages. Follow the central characters Peter and Robin as they fall in and out of love many times.
I did not find this book a gripping read but found it a tiresome mundane tale of ordinary life. Makenna covers an awful lot of ground in her novel and it is clear that she tries very hard. She gives a flavour of the time with a long list of the popular music of the day. Yet there is nothing special about this story, it is a simple boy meets girl and they have a family. The plot is predictable and the writing is on a par with a report of a football match.
I got very little pleasure from reading this book, it is rather long and I hoped it would get better as I ploughed through the pages. Sadly it did not improve and this is clearly a second class read. I think this is a POOR read that I will vote just 2 stars. Makenna is good at one part of her novel though - DEATH. Although Down Our Road is a family saga romance there are the deaths of 5 characters through the pages. Each death is handled with such well crafted background, emotion, style and wisdom that it saved me from voting this book 1 star.
Down Our Road is available as an Amazon Kindle eBook and was written in 2014.
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