Review: Compelling story suffers from lack of editing
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 14, 2014
You can let your spell checker proofread your book but if you do, you could wind up with a work like Kill Them Wherever You Find Them by David Hunter.  Spell checkers find words that are spelled wrong.  They do not fill in missing words (not that this book needed to be any longer) or correct wrong words that are spelled right.This story deserved an editor and would really have benefited from one.  The action, when it is moving along, is engrossing.  But the story bogs down quite often.  If someone had tightened it up and fixed all the typos (and there are scores of them), it would really have been a lot better.I will give David Hunter credit for writing a good time travel story.  They tend to be confusing or overly complex or part fantasy.  None of that happens here.  Things are clear and compelling.  The characters are very well-developed too.  In fact, I started to skip through a lot of the character development because it was so repetitive.  I also found the spy/counterspy portion of the story a little over-wrought.  Without giving away any spoilers, I will just say that the bad guys keep doing the same thing a lot which becomes wearisome.There is a good story inside this book waiting for someone to cut away the rest of the text and fix all the minor problems.  That story deserves to be told and it's a shame the the author didn't take the time to do it.