Review: Needs a proofreader
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 22, 2013
Overall, I thought this book had one of the best premises I've come across in a long time.  The switches between 1st & 3rd person were a little distracting at first, until I realized keeping up was actually simple: the psychic's perspective was in 1st, Mrs. Dodd's was in 3rd.  Artful and interesting.  The ending was a superb surprise.The biggest downside for me was grammatical; what should have been possessive forms weren't: whose, rather than who's is only one example, and then the reverse: their rather than they're; drug as past tense for drag - seriously?; double prepositions: off of, outside of; second-grade mistakes: here rather than hear, to rather than too; adjectives where adverbs should have been; malapropisms: indigently, when I supposed them to mean indignantly.  And, no; I'm not an English teacher, but after a while I found myself wondering if English was the authors' second language.The other downside was the shallow character development.  Dunn and Simms could have been much more deeply written, as could have the developing relationship between Dunn and the psychic.  I enjoyed Mrs. Dodd and Sissy, however.A good read, a great first attempt.  I do recommend it.  I would read others by the same authors if they can get their English usage straightened out.