Review: It's Sad That Such a Good Story has been wasted by bad editing
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 03 25, 2014
I really liked the story...when I could get into it.  I kept telling myself that when the protagonist's attention got snagged by a dust mote (as it seemed to do a lot) it was simply her nature. After she started to understand "the big picture", It seemed to me that we got stuck in a kind of an endless loop of metaphysical explanation.On the other hand, she evolved and I really liked that. She had understandable concerns and motives. I really liked that her beginning aspect was a clear dimension of her final aspect, as if she had been "pared down" through millennia.  Unfortunately, her romance seemed kind of an add on and not really romantic. She doesn't really fall for him as much as she's always been into him and he's been into her, but in the 2nd-grade, hit-him-on-the-arm-and-run-away kind of way.The "bad guys" were cookie-cutter, and even the best developed, Loki, really didn't have any "connection" to the protagonist and therefore seemed to phone it in.I wonder if a similar story being told from Zeus/Thor/Jupiter's point of view might be planned, and some of the courting/falling in love/romantic stuff is being reserved for it. I could also see a case for Loki getting his own book.The Goddesss of Details was evidently absent when the book was edited.  Running chapters through spell-check does not "count" as editing.  I kept being pulled out of the action (when I wasn't slogging through metaphysics) by stupid homophone kinds of words like "thrown" for "throne" and "Sheppard" for "shepherd."  And it wasn't just now and then, it was EVERY instance of "throne" or "shepherd."