Review: the problem is not the length
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 11 13, 2011
I'm not a fan of short books, and I do appreciate that this is not one of those ripoff short short things you read in15 minutes.I believe the problem is the lack of an editor.  Yes there are some simple typos, but that isn't what I mean.  A good editor gives another perspective on what is important to the plot vs what  is just babble.This story would have been good at a half or third the length.  The rest is padding, unnecessary to the plot, unpleasant to wade through, and mostly the author just being in love with her own purple prose.Besides that, it took forever to read - not in the sense of being particularly long, but in the sense of the reader becoming intolerably bored in the middle of the endless droning and putting down the book to go do something much more interesting, such as cleaning the mildew out of the catch pan under the  refrigerator.