I have to say I agree with some of the other reviews by being loving the beginning of the book and feeling for the struggles of the main characters. Then somewhere after the middle of the book, after a massive journey across America,it feels like a different book. The main character's goal is always about survival, but everything is different. It does feel like another author picked up where someone left off.I think that before the book changed off, it gave you a very real look at what traveling across the country in the late 1800's was like. It was a very tough world and it's a wonder people survived it at all. In addition to being a woman with less of a say than a man.For an author's first book I'd say not bad. An easy read with similarities to Gone With the Wind as far as the relationships between Aislynn and the men. Tim is clearly her Ashley. The other two men share some of Rhett's characteristics and roles. I wish the male characters would have been a bit more developed so we could understand more about their motivation and what she saw in each of them. Young Tim was good-- older Tim we didn't seem to learn much about, and in my opinion didn't understand well or care much about. Johnny's character was probably my favorite, perhaps because we spent the most time with him. Moran... well I never understood why she let herself spend so much time with him and never said anything to anybody about him (or even said something to him to create some polite social distance) when he was making unwelcomed advances towards her. His development seemed rushed at parts. I also really wished the men would have interacted with Aislynn more once they were settled in Utah and she began coming into her headstrong, independent Scarlett-ness. It seemed like they receded a bit too far into the background.
What do You think about Far Away Home (2011)?
This would have been a good book if the ending hadn't sucked.
—karce
