Review: Good Book but needs an Editor
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 15, 2013
This book has such promise and could be a great book but it needs an editor badly. The story is a good one, who is going to find an artifact that leads to untold riches the good guys or bad guys. The book reminds me of the way Clive Cussler tells a story with starting out in the past and tying that to the present. What I was having a hard time with is that the author gets caught up in all the minutiae of a scene. Some details are necessary for the story all the others just bogs the story down. There were several instances that I felt that I was reading a travel brochure. He could have set up the scene in one sentence instead of a whole paragraph. In the beginning of chapter 32 he does this plus the author jumps from one scene back to another and then back to the previous scene. It made no sense and interrupted the flow of the story.  The author should have taken the first paragraph and a half and put that thread of thought on the next page instead of jumping back and forth. Like I said a good editor would have caught that.All in all, the book deserves a second glance if you don't mind being told about every little thing in a scene regardless if it is needed for the progression of the book. I know that the author wanted to let the reader understand the flavor of the scene but sometimes less is more.