Review: A truly excellent story, but with some minor glitches that more editing might have corrected. I want to read more novels by her!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 11, 2013
There were a lot of things that I really loved about this book. Excellent tension, plot. Superb character development. Theresa kept me reading, and I hated having to put the book down. There were three things that got in the way of a 5-star review, however, and two of them could have been helped by more (or better) editing. Two of them: grammar and spelling. There were a number of errors. One of my pet peeves is using "alright," which is NOT a word, instead of "all right." And it was used a lot. (Not "alot!!!") The other factor was that the voice of the virus didn't work at all for me. I simply cannot envision a virus speaking (or thinking) like a college graduate. The information given by the virus was good, but could have come from another source. Maybe Brian. The one place where I appreciated the words of the virus was in the final chapter, "The Final Word," which was well done--but again, the idea of a virus coming up with this chapter...well, it just didn't work for me. However, I really loved the book itself, I want to see more from Theresa MacPhail.