Review: Gripping Story; Typos distract
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 4, 2010
First the good:  The story is quite interesting and pulled me in right away.  It was in first person so if you don't like that style, you may not like this book.  I like how the first person went back and forth between Viola and Duke.  The story was internally-consistent and had a few surprises for me (which I won't spoil for you).  I had a hard time putting the book down when it was 1 am and I was about 3/4 through the book. That is always the sign of an engrossing story for me. Also, I LIKED the characters which is always important to me and I liked how they were fleshed out. For some strange reason, it reminded me a big of the "Fever" series by Karen Marie Moning. I'm not quite sure why as the story is very different but somehow it had the same flavor as that series. The end of the book indicates that the sequel, The Chaos Child, is coming out in Winter of 2010.  As long as it is a reasonable price, I will likely buy the sequel to Daugher of Deception as I can't wait to see what happens next.Now the bad:  The typos are VERY distracting and pull you out of the story.  They are present in the last half of the book, but in the first 1/2 of the book they happen so often that is is annoying.  Sometimes a word is missing, occasionally the wrong word is used but most often the tense is off.  For example, there is this passage: "She understood the necessity of the tests, but she wished she didn't have to be the one to carry them out.  It wouldn't be a long time before she even thinks about a slab of bacon without being grossed out." or this one "Before he could add anything else, she dashed out of the shed and dives into the relative safety of her SUV".  The book has present tense where it should be past or future tense. Between that and the typos and missing words, it got very annoying reading the book.  I don't know if the book missed an editing phase or what happenend.