Review: Sweet story (with a bit of steam)
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 23, 2013
This was a fairly slow romance.  By that, I mean that the relationship developed a little more slowly than in other books; the first kiss was a lot further along in the book than in most.I enjoyed it (to the point that I stayed up last night until I finished it).  It had a bit of mystery and action.  And I was glad to see the H and h finally get together.  They were right for each other.The rating dropped to a "3", however, because of the lack of editing.  By now, I'm fairly used to spelling, punctuation and grammatical errors in the books (could someone, please, tell me where editors are now?  Is that not a profession anymore?  What happened to the people who used to check books for errors?).  But this book's mistakes made some of the book almost impossible to understand.  For instance, quotes ("....") are used in the most bizarre way.  A paragraph will have ending quote marks but not the beginning ones.  So you have to reread the paragraph several times to figure out which part of it was actually said out loud and which part was just description.  There were times when I finally had to give up trying to figure it out.  There were some word choices that were questionable; I really don't think the author meant to say what was on the page.  Words were misspelled.  It really is critical that a book be edited to remove as many mistakes as possible.  This book is an excellent example of why that's true.  It's not just for the appearance of the book - so that it's cleaned up and error-free.  But there are times when not editing a book can actually cause your writing to be hard to understand or follow.  The reader shouldn't have to trudge through the story trying to figure out what you meant between the mistakes.I really did enjoy this book.  The plot, characters and romance were great.  But it was so much work to figure that out.  I want to read a book to get away and enjoy some time relaxing.  Not plod through a minefield of, at times, unreadable errors.