Review: A good novel, hampered by horrendous editing
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 20, 2012
There is a great novel here, you just need to dig through the muck.  The editing was very poor, with whole sentences seeming to disappear into the aether, misplaced punctuation, and a lack of quotation marks denoting dialogue.  The setting is a well-trodden one, but the author makes it his own.  The subject matter was clearly painstakingly researched and well-written.  However the pacing and plot fall short, and the "twist" in the last 10% of the book completely derails all the hard work the author has done thus far and smacks of deus ex machina.