good story, needs an editor
583989
Emma surprised me...as she was supposed to, I guess.
Cute story, predictable ending...keeping a secret leads to no good...as is typical plot in so many of these stories of "tormented souls." Oh well...entertained me for a while.
4727736
While I enjoyed the story, I found the numerous grammatical errors bothersome and felt it needed a more careful edit, as at times it was too wordy, which detracted from the narrative. I do acknowledge that those things might not distress the average reader, but I am not a skimmer, I read every word. I'm now reading book 2, and will most likely read book three when it comes out.  I always need to know how a story ends.
3025241
The premise and the story are good.  I enjoyed the book.  I recommend that it be edited.  I found many mistakes in the book including punctuation and grammer.  Once properly edited it will be a very good book.
1496478
I enjoyed the story, however there were many errors with spelling, grammar and punctuation. This prevented me from giving five stars for the rating.
669261
I liked the first two books in the series well enough, even though the author clearly needs an editor. The storyline is compelling and the characters are human and interesting. This one is just having trouble keeping my interest, and that's solely due to the lack of editing. Many, many gratuitous commas and yet oddly, a lack of them where they would be required. Grammar errors that would be caught by a human but not by spell check. Continuity errors. That sort of thing just yanks me right out of a story, and to have it happen multiple times on a page is excessive.
1910870
I always enjoy a good murder mystery, and I am also on the lookout for books with gay characters. So I was quite happy when I found the first book by this author, "Untouchable." I enjoyed the characters and plot, so I ordered his second book, "Confessional." I enjoy the story, but there really are two areas where this author needs to improve. First of all is editing and grammar. There are a number of errors, but the most noticeable is the consistent misuse of the verb "sat." For example: "He was sat at his desk." No, "He sat at his desk." or "He was sitting at his desk." This occurs so frequently it becomes annoying. Another item was an apparent lack of familiarity with the Catholic church and the Anglican church, which is important, as much of the story takes place in a church in England. One of the characters is a recently "inaugurated" woman priest (by the way, priests are not inaugurated, they are ordained). She talks about having difficulty being accepted by some of her parishioners as a woman priest in the Catholic church. The Catholic church does not ordain women priests, so this is a pretty significant error. Another priest in the church is referred to as the Vicar, which sounds very much like it takes place in an Anglican church, which does ordain women priests.
4391860
Good story but LOTS of grammatical errors. Sometimes I had to go back and re-read the sentence because I wasn't sure what the author was trying to say. Good story just needed better editing.
3567141
Needs editing - whole paragraphs repeated and some other issues as well.  Good story.
1679896
I enjoyed the story and the characters. I hope the author will find an editor who will help cut out the unnecessary words, which are just space fillers, and make the writing leaner and more impactful. If the writing was as good as the plot, this would have earned double the two stars I gave it.
4771747
Very good story but has several serious editing needs. Words missing and even a phrase or two.
Would give it 5 stars if corrections made!
3820279
Fun, engaging story riddled with grammatical errors that could definitely use an editor.  If grammatical errors don't pull you out of the story, you'll enjoy this. If lackadaisical, haphazard editing bothers you, don't read this. Features include one exciting heroine a bunch of bad guys, a zillion kidnappings, strange punctuation, a need for a thesaurus entry for the word "lecherous" (which is used ad nauseum), and even a paragraph that leaves off without finishing a sentence at all! Either the author is in need of an editor, or whoever transcribed it for Kindle should rethink their career choice. Story line, characters, and magical world are thoroughly enjoyable.  I vote the author hires an editor, as I'd love to hear more from this world.
2624061
I thought the story line was well developed and the characters were engaging and well developed. I kept reading because of these two things, it was enjoyable but the story needs a serious editing.  There were so many mistakes that are distracting and annoying and shows poor professionalism. Most of these articles and sentence switching and dropped articles and spell correction errors should have disappeared with any attempt to reread the work so this was very saddening.  Still very enjoyable just wish it would have received some serious proofreading.
708057
I enjoyed this story, read the next book in the series and have ordered the third.  However, I have never in my life read a book that had so many glaring spelling, grammar and other editing errors.  It's as if an early draft was accidentally printed or, if this was a final, it was proofed by a not very well-trained chimpanzee.  There are errors on almost every page.  It's very distracting.  If you can ignore that and finish the book, the second book has fewer appalling editing failures.  The protagonist in this series is a rather fascinating character - interesting enough to make me curious to read his continuing adventures.
659914
I thought that this book had a lot of potential. The storyline and characters were interesting. I wanted to give it 4 stars but I couldn't do it.

There were enough grammar errors to take me out of the story at times, and there was one scene toward the end where I thought one thing was happening and it suddenly did a 180 and there were different characters involved. It was confusing, and I'm not sure if it was too complicated for my brain that night or if the description of the situation needs work.

It's a good story, regardless of my nitpicking, and is worth a read. I'll likely read more in the series, but with so much competition and so little time to read, it won't be at the top of my list.
4001726
This is the first story I've read by this author.  Very enjoyable story, certainly an interesting mystery.  Unfortunately, the book desperately needed editing.  Bad punctuation, misspellings and other errors distracted me from fully enjoying it.  Would have been 5 stars if it had been properly edited. Please hire a professional editor next time!
4675239
The story was pretty good, but needs editing -- too many quotation marks were totally off -- kept throwing me off the storyline.  A few other typos, but not bad.  Submitted to Amazon, but never know if they actually correct.  Definitely left on a gentle cliffhanger.  I'd read another one if they were re-edited.
3305400
Good story, could use work on grammar, way too many "But, ....." used inappropriately. Ending was a bit abrupt. Needs work to make readable.