BLACKBIRD FLY

BLACKBIRD FLY by Lise McClendon

From Amazon.com:

Behind the golden stone walls of a village in southwest France, American Merle Bennett finds solace from her grief while renovating her late husband's ancestral home.  But things don't go as planned.  Soon any calm she feels in her French summer is overshadowed by secrets from the past.  A crumbling house, a deranged squatter, unfriendly and violent villagers, a surprise in the garden house - it makes a girl almost wish for the sleepy suburbs.  But Merle can't go home until all is resolved, one way or another.

From this description, this sounded like an interesting book.  It got great reviews on Amazon. And the price was right - free for the Kindle.  So I downloaded it.

This had to be one of the most disjointed books I've ever read.  The story jumped all over the place, from past to present.  Usually that works for me, but in this book, even the past was out of sync.  Characters came out of nowhere - I had to keep flipping back to see if I had missed something.  The story was unbelievable.  Merle spent a lot of money fixing up this French house, after finding out that her husband left her almost no money when he died.  The entire book just didn't ring true for me.

For me, in this case, I got exactly what I paid for - nothing.