Review: I hate giving bad reviews ....
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 10 16, 2013
Does this publisher not have editors?  I'm pretty sure there were no misspelled words but I would have preferred that to the redundancies, inconsistencies and misuse of urban slang.A reader should not be able to identify an author's voice.  What I mean by that is we shouldn't be thinking that if we met the author we would recognize her from the way she speaks.  It's okay if a character speaks that way, but we definitively should not be reading it in the prose.The author used the word "plan" three times in two adjacent sentences.  That was just one example of repeated words or phrases.  On occasion the adjustment of syntax would have condensed an idea and made it flow better.It was mentioned the town of Shelley was twenty miles from Kellington.  Why would it take an hour to get there?  In a few places in the story we are told something is going to happen or a character is going somewhere .... then it doesn't happen, nor is it mentioned again.So Kellington is a small town.  I may have missed it but I don't know if it was close to NYC like New Jersey or New York state or if it was in Michigan or Ohio.  I just can't imagine an urbane Italian man who, speaks so romantically, use the phrase, "let's hit this from the back" when suggesting a different sexual position.The author is writing about two different cultures.  That was why I bought the book, yet it seemed like she somehow wanted to make the characters homogeneous so everyone spoke with the same urban cadence.  Even the lovely Italian accented mother used an urban phrase.The author had a good idea and premise for the story so I'm going to say SHAME ON YOU to the publisher for letting it be presented in such a poor state.