Review: Good story but it needs polishing
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 09 13, 2013
I really liked the lesson this book discussed, which is around the parent/child relationship and understanding what is really important. Sometimes expectations are placed (or enforced) on others without people listening to each other and understanding the other person's point of view. If a child is crying out, the parents need to listen before something devastating happens. Lots of good life lessons packed in this book.I also like how the author used his clairvoyant gift and wrote a fictional tale about that gift. I'm not saying the author experienced what is written on these pages, because I don't know that. The author gave his main character this gift and it was interesting to see how the character could "read" people with such accuracy.I was confused, however, in the first half of this book. Two characters in particular confused me as I often thought I was reading about the same person yet they had different names. The confusion was cleared up around 60% of the way through. I also felt the book had a slow start through the first half. All of the action is at the tale end. I found myself skipping paragraphs to get to the dialogue and action. I personally don't like a lot of foul language and this book had quite a bit of it, especially toward the end. I felt it unnecessary and that it detracted from the story. I also had some issues with the dialogue; characters saying unbelievable things at a point in time when they were going through something traumatic. I also felt the story could use an edit both from a grammatical standpoint (floating between past & present tense) as well as from a story structure perspective. I think this could be a really great story with some polishing.