Review: A very good story, but sorely needs a proofreader
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 16, 2013
First, the positives: I want to say that I really enjoyed the story & the unusual perspective of it being told by someone "from the hereafter", & was not bothered by the fact that the story jumped around a bit (as stated in the beginning of the book). The syntax & cadence of the narrator's words did a very good job of capturing the speech pattern of someone who originally spoke Yiddish & Polish, but was now speaking English. It's obvious that a lot of research went into the book & it did a fine job of portraying the times & places covered by the story.But -- the author REALLY needs to have someone proofread the book before publishing. There were so many errors of al types: misplaced/misused commas & apostrophes, use of the wrong word (usually either a homonym or a similar-sounding word), typos, etc. that it became extremely distracting. There were times when I had to read a sentence several times in order to figure out what was being said. I know the book was written from the perspective of someone for whom English was not a native language, but these errors had nothing to do with that. Why do so many authors skip something as important as proofreading?!