HELP...Great Book (The author needed "help" with the editing)
595389
Great book.

I enjoyed the book and was appalled by the poor treatment of the domestic "help". I was moved to tears a time or two.  The female characters were great.  However, I would have liked the storyline to dig a bit deeper into the male characters.  The depiction of Mississippi during that period in time, was dead on.  One could truly feel for the people who suffered the prejudices and the injustices. I  enjoyed this book immensely and would highly recommend it.

Now the part which irked me...the editing (or lack thereof) Ms. Stockett should have done a better job in making sure that the editing process was correct and complete.  Having a little session at the end of the book explaining the "ooops" bits was pure laziness and frankly, quite tacky. Also, the research was lacking...Shake n Bake was mentioned a couple of times in the book (which was supposed to take place in 1962). HELLO...Shake n Bake made its way into kitchens in 1965. The author should have done her homework. For a new author trying to make a good impression; she should have made sure her work was pure perfection before going to print.  That being said, I loved the book.
2837919
Apostrophes should be replaced with quotation marks and chapter headers should be in English. Please clean up the punctuation and formatting in this book.  If you don't know why, use Voiceover or Speech to read this book on an iPhone.

Please, for the love of God, correct the word Discrete (separate) to Discreet (carefully with circumspection). Spellcheck doesnt catch usage errors. If you paid an editor, you were robbed.

The storyline and characters are well developed. I did guess the murderer in the last few chapters, but I still wanted to get through to find out how it went down. (In spite of having to hear, apostrophe  at the end of virtually all of the dialogue in the entire book).
Ian and Moira are still interesting and I want to know more about them. I cant wait to read the next one !
1338666
Good story. I recommend reading it except for one note to the author....GET SOMEONE TO EDIT FOR YOU. TOO MANY GRAMMAR/SPELLING PROBLEMS!
2568094
I really enjoyed the story, and this would have gotten 5 stars from me if it weren't for the numerous grammatical errors that i found irritating. This book really needs to be edited (by a human). All of the errors would be missed by spell-checks as they are really words, but the wrong words, that i noticed several times.

Again this is a great story that i really enjoyed and would highly recommend once the spelling errors are fixed.
3946495
I really enjoyed this book. I do believe Iliked the first slightly more. I do hope Erica continues to write but I pray she finds someone to format and edit her works. There is nothing more frustrating as a reader than a wonderful story that becomes choppy because of lack of formatting and spelling errors. Beyond that I really enjoyed the book and found myself engaged with the characters though the heroine at times I wanted to strangle or smack but all in all a good book I read both books one and two in a day and will follow Erica on facebook to follow her future releases. But from an author to an author please please please add a good beta to your editing team and have someone format you ebooks. Thank you and best of luck.
458808
Overall, I adored the book. It was very helpful at the start but progressing forward, the levels of explaiining what certain functions or scripts, was drastically decreased almost as if you were in a rush to get it done. All in all, I definitely will read the  book again, but by fixing these errors the  book itself and its content will definitely be improved.
4285737
Great book!  Wonderful story!  Needs better editing.
939892
Great book ! However, I thought this edition would have corrected some of the errors that have been pointed out to the author,
3678503
A few recommendations to the author:  I have read all your books and you are a wonderful storyteller and there is a lot to recommend in Lucien and Sabrina's story.  However, do yourself a favor and please, please, please invest in a US editor.  Just a few examples where an editor could have helped...............a blouse is sheer, not shear.  It's nether (for discussing a region of the body)....not neither.  It's coop---not coup.  I also found an instance where Lucien's name was spelled Lucian.

Americans don't ever use the phrase to "wind someone up"--that's reserved for the Brits.  I know you are British--but I have to agree with another reviewer--if you are writing about Americans in America--then use American English.  An editor or at least a beta reader would have helped with this.

 And for the love of God, do everyone a favor and never ever use the word bulbous again!  I would have given this book a higher rating--if not for all the errors.
1848447
Very entertaining read, and an honest, accurate portrayal of life in the minor leagues.  Terrible editing, however, as there are numerous errors throughout the book.  Words that are wrong, or missing altogether, commas in the wrong place, etc.  Let's hope the author, publisher, or editor takes the time to do the work before the next edition so the reader doesn't have to figure out what was meant as he goes.
2623434
This was a very informative book and very easy to read however they may want to find a different editor if looking to write another book. I found so many errors throughout the book that caused some difficulty in reading and towards the end I felt like they were being redundant with some information just to fill empty pages. While I found these issues, I still found this book highly interesting.
4949950
Liked it but author needs an editor. There were a lot of sentences in the book with extra words where she started to write the sentence one way and then changed it without deleting all the words from the original sentence. But I will definitely read her next book.
2235503
I just read this.  Atrocious grammar.  Pretty sure no editor was involved.  Aside from that it's amazing.  There are a lot of helpful ideas and practices.  It would be great if the writer could use "her" and "she" some of the time instead of always using "him" and "his".  There are over 100 spelling, missing words and grammar errors.  It would be easier to recommend properly edited books in my humble opinion
1842146
Updated review:
Ms. Canavan had this book professionally edited since my first review. She notified me personally when it was revised. Now you tell me how many authors would do that? I have now re-read the book and am happy to say that it is now with very few grammar errors! For a first book, she has hit a grand slam! I really believe that Ms. Canavan could be the next top selling author, her book is incredible and not one of those authors who give you a 100 page book for $4 or $5 either. This is a FULL novel for $1. I absolutely cannot wait for the sequel. Please hurry!

Original review:
This book was fantastic! I can't wait for the next book!  I'm giving 3 stars because 1) I hate books that abruptly end and you are left hanging for who knows how long? 2) the author either doesn't know the correct spelling of many common words or she absolutely did not even bother to read her final version. Examples: "our" is spelled "are" every time it's used and "where" is either spelled "we're" or "were" or "wear" and "doubt" is spelled "dought" and on and on, sentence after sentence..... This book without the constant spelling errors was extremely vivid and had me rushing to get to the end, but alas i kept having to re-read each sentence to make sense of the meaning because of the spelling. Please get an editor before your next installment because you definitely have talent!
245353
I enjoyed your novel. Lots of engrossing moments. I found a number of spelling and grammatical issues. Where shall I send them? My email is f.gucciardo@cox.net.
Thanks/fg
4378400
First off, let me just say that I loved the story. I felt like it gave me an insider's look into addiction and mental illness, as well as what happens to shelter animals.  In fact, after reading this book, I think adopting a shelter dog may be in my future. The problem I had with this book was the poor editing (kindle version, downloaded in May). There was bad word choice--using "live" instead of "life" a couple of times was mentioned in a previous review.  But there were also things like "it's" instead of "its".  There was also a lack of punctuation at the end of a couple of sentences.  And there was a confusing instance in chapter 28 where one character, James, was referred to as another character, Tom. These and lots of other word choice, grammatical and punctuation errors continuously took me out of the story.  I kept reading--when normally I would have stopped--because I really did like the characters and the world that the author created. With a good editor, I think it could have been a five star book.

Edited to add:  Turns out there's a second edition of this book that was released after the copy I read, and that's the one that's available for download now.  Looks like grammatical and other errors I complained about before have been fixed--which is great because it's a powerful story that I can now wholeheartedly recommend. Thanks to author for sending me the new version.
1107744
Hire a proofreader, or ask some friend, family member , or fan, as once I had read 80% of the book, the typos started piling up.  I work cheap (or would work cheaply, that being the correct modifying adverb for a verb.  Again a fabulous book by an excellent story teller.