The Day the Falls Stood Still by Cathy Marie Buchanan

 ★★¾

GENRE: Historical Fiction
SUBJECT: natural resources, water for electric power
Setting: Niagara Falls,
CHARACTERS: Bess Heath, Tom Cole, Isabel Heath, Edward Atwell, Jesse Cole, Mrs Andrews
DATE READ: July 1 - July 5
NO. OF PAGES: 298
Off the Shelf (pre-2013)? Source?:   Yes, loan from Tina

PLOT:...............................................2.50
CHARACTERIZATION:..................2.50
TOPICS:...........................................3.00
STYLE:.............................................3.00
ORIGINALITY:..................................3.00
ADDICTIVENESS:..........................2.50
OWNERSHIP:..................................3.00
Threshold Quality.............................2.50
Average..............................................................2.75

What I was expecting to be an historical account of a time period when Niagara Falls was frozen and its effects on the neighboring population and economy turned out to be a somewhat lackluster turn of the century romance between a young woman from a well-to-do family hitting hard times and a boy from the wrong side of the tracks.  The title was extremely misleading especially since there was only one  small portion about a time when the river/falls froze.

I kept hoping that the story would pick up, but IMHO, it fell flat.