Review: Editor, please!
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 4, 2014
Three stars for an interesting story with fairly well developed characters, but it seriously needed an editor.  HOMONYMS such as your and you're, whose and who's, passed and past, and there, their and they're are not interchangeable.  They are used differently and have different meanings.  This was a real distraction for me.  There are other usages of poor grammar.  A 17 year old boy is ready to get his doctorate from Harvard and starts a sentence with "him and me"?  Not in a college as strict as Harvard.  Unfortunately, the portrayal of bigotry Ben faced was all too true for that time.  I would recommend the book, but with a warning about the need for editing.  Sometimes spell check is not a writer's friend.  Especially if he/she depends on it for usage, also.