Review: English as a second language?
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 19, 2013
This is a fun story told from the POV of a college freshman, a Yankee girl in the south.  It isn't necessarily a book about clashing cultures or a young woman's coming of age.  It's about fine art, restoration of fine art and thievery.  Unfortunately, grammatical errors, punctuation errors, misspellings and misused words  make the book difficult to read.  One more editing would have made a huge difference in my reading pleasure.  This author might want to consider learning the difference between lose and loose, between its and it's, where commas should and should not be used, and the logic behind hyphenated words.UPDATE:  5 September 2013--the author read this review and contacted me to say that she'd had this book edited by a professional and would I please re-read it and comment again.  I'm about 50 years beyond my freshman year in college, but when I re-read this story I found myself smiling and becoming angry and frightened for the protagonist. NOW this book deserves 4.5 stars!  It was a fun and fascinating story before but now it reads like it was professionally written and edited!  Apparently the new editor still doesn't know the difference between loose and lose but it's not used that often and only caused me to stop and chuckle a little.  Now I can highly recommend this book!  Thanks, Paisley, for getting a good editor!  I'm eager to read the next one in this series!