Review: Better Editing Would Have Earned Another Star
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 4, 2013
The basic premise of this story is cute, and the story, itself, is entertaining.  Griff Ross, a travel writer, goes to see dentist, Junior Atkinson, about a cracked and very painful tooth.  As he's going under the anesthesia, he hears -- and completely misinterprets -- a conversation between Junior and her Aunt Rosie.  Griff thinks Junior is dying, and that she doesn't want to die a virgin; in reality, Junior's doctor has told her that her endometriosis is causing a rapidly closing window for a pregnancy.I felt as if I were missing parts of the back story regarding Junior.  More than once the author gave me the impression Junior was...well, a slut.  Her "reputation" is referred to, as is the leering laughter of three young men who tell Griff she's a "good" gal -- and good clearly doesn't mean sweet and innocent.  I also felt a little confused regarding the line in the description that tells the reader Junior left home to see if she fit in in the big city; this was given only a passing reference in the book, leaving me feeling as if this book were a sequel or something.A good editor would have probably caught these concerns, not to mention quite a lot of simple errors (i.e., typos, spelling, repeated words, wrong pronouns and words in the wrong order).  My advice to the author is to get a couple of people who can be trusted to be honest; better to be a little annoyed by someone pointing out confusion or errors BEFORE you publish.In summary, I'll look for more work by Ms. Laska to see if she heeds the advice of several of her readers.