Review: Nice read, but badly needs editing
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 25, 2013
This book was fairly fun to read, especially since the characters are in my general age group.  There is a dog in this book, which I liked, though I am not quite sure why the title "Dogs Never Lie".However, the errors in grammar, punctuation (PARTICULARLY missing commas where they really are needed), and some word usage were quite distracting - I kept stopping to decide what was intended.  A few other examples follow.  The time line needs to be corrected:  following the prologue, action begins "Seven Weeks Earlier", but that same scene actually occurs in 14 days (Oct 28 pm to Nov 11 pm).  And unless Catholicism has changed greatly, I don't think having 2 to 4 divorces each make the men in Gavin's family "good Catholics", especially with children in some of the prior marriages.  Daylight savings time doesn't make days "noticeably shorter", either.  "We need to talk." is not "three little words"; I count 4 words.  A fair amount of the action in the book seemed unlikely to me, but maybe that is where you are to suspend disbelief.  Maybe many people don't even notice things like those.