Review: Great story & characters but seriously needs a proofreader
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 09 29, 2013
The basic plot is good and the story line moves along well.  The characters are likeable ( except for the villains, of course) and for the most part believable.  This should have been a great read.  Unfortunately, there was apparently no proofreader used.  There are an annoying number of typos, words left out, extra words put in ( maybe left in after editing? ) and these errors drove my OCD nuts!  There are also instances of sound-alike-but-spelled-differently words - maybe the author used a speech-to-text program.  The punctuation was somewhat erratic, and there were a number of incomplete sentences. Again, a good proofreader would have fixed these problems.  I was also bemused by her use of words common to Scottish dialect - wee, lasses, etc - that were likely not used by the mostly Norman French of this time period.  I did finish the book, as the story did hold my interest, but it was not a comfortable read.  She is a good writer, but I hope that in future efforts she will proof her final drafts before publishing.