Review: Jessi gets her man.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 23, 2014
"The Surrogate" is a fanciful short story with very little plot and a fairy story ending. The reader is dropped into the tale when the female protagonist is eight month's pregnant with twins. The unfolding of the tale is predictable with little if any tension between the characters. Despite the announcement of two editors on the front matter instances of the work of the "Printer's Devil" still slipped through.Here is an example: `"Doctor Bowmen, it's nice to meet you. I appreciate you willing to deliver the babies here." Her hand glazed over her stomach again, it had become a habit since she found out she was pregnant.'The first sentence shows the use of a wrong word `willing' instead of perhaps `agreeing'. The second shows the dangers of autocorrect when `grazed' became `glazed'. Autocorrect is much better these days but still prone to error because it uses best fit spelling without any reference to context.If you like short sweet stories with a happy ending then you will like this book.