Review: Interesting story, average writing
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 24, 2012
Whoever compared this book to DEFENDING JACOB, couldn't have read both books.I enjoyed the story line, but this novel had so many cliches, over use of articles, extra/unnecessary verbiage, misused words and sentence fragments that the flow of the story took a backseat to the writing. For example the writer used "cued" when "queued" was the proper word for the sentence. Occasional sentences starting with "but" add to writing style, although too many distract.At times the writer did an excellent job with the voice of the novel, but too often that voice was lost.  At times the characters showed great depth, but then these same characters fell into caricatures and stereotypes.This could have been a great book with a better edit job focused on Writing 101 no-nos.