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Title: A Harlequin Romance for the Organic Gardener
Review: Thin plot and flat characters. I think the author forgot to develope the characters, choosing to spew the "organic" and "naturalist" religion instead. I myself am a firm organic gardener, but I don't think I could have stood another flowery passage describing the importance of bugs and the concepts of predation. The editor failed to do his/her job allowing lengthy descriptions like a garden as having peppers with bright green and red ornaments and eggplants with beautiful purple gifts. (My organic garden certainly doesn't look that way.) The plot seemed like a junior highschool kid's dream of a perfect world in which folks who don't harm nature end up on top. The strings which tie the three stories together are contrived -- they seem to have been added as an afterthought.I thought I was a Kingsolver fan after reading Poisonwood Bible, but this book certainly changed my mind on that.
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