Review: Great Story--Poorest Editing EVER
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 26, 2014
Mercy's Heart by Grace Walton was a heart-warming, lively, entertaining tale. I loved each of her vivid, memorable Christ Keeper characters, as well as her plot with its twists and surprising turns. She is a wonderful story teller, though she left some glitches in the continuity of the telling of this tale. However, Mercy's Heart had to be the most poorly edited published book I have ever encountered. I read the Kindle edition of the book, so I hope that somehow accounted for the sentence fragments and general butchering of the most basic rules of grammar. Often I would have to go back and read a sentence 2 or 3 times in order to get the meaning, which was due to oddly placed commas--or no comma where one was needed. Typos and partial edits abounded.  Given the hard work and literal pound of flesh that an author expends in birthing a book, I cannot fathom letting it go public in such shabby form. Will I try another of Ms. Walton's books? I will, but if it proves to be as poorly presented, I have every intention of writing to her personally to bring her to task for exploiting a paying readership deserving of her best efforts.