Review: Good story, poor editing
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 9, 2013
This self-published romance is set in the 13th century Highlands.  The protagonist is reminiscent of one of Julie Garwood's heroines, leaving disasters in her wake in her determination to find a home and acceptance when her father makes her marry a neighboring laird to gain an alliance.  The laird in question is fierce, distrustful of women due to a past problem, yet fascinated by his new wife.  Outside of the time period, there isn't much actual history and the story revolves mostly around the struggles involved in the romance.I would have liked to give this a better rating--the story is good and the characters are appealing.  But the editing of this book is atrocious.  Needed punctuation is lacking is many places.  It often seems as if the author changed her mind about the structure of a sentence midstream and never removed the rejected words. Or words are left out entirely and the reader must spend a few seconds parsing the sentence.  And some words are misused--"and" for "but," for example; and throughout the word "cottar" is used to mean a cottage, instead of villein or peasant farmer as is proper.Too bad the author didn't give her book the care it deserved.  The price should be dropped drastically--$5.99 is too much to pay in light of the editing problems.