Almost Perfect edition by Barbara Khan Literature Fiction eBooks
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Young schoolteacher Lilly Spencer felt Coach Johnny was the perfect man. He was a skilled athlete, ruggedly handsome and compassionate, exactly the kind of man she wanted. Their backgrounds were worlds apart but the sophisticated Lilly was drawn to the adopted son of a coalminer in a way that was powerful and palpable. With overpowering raw emotion that always seemed on the brink of overtaking them, both tread cautiously in the ocean of their own suppressed feelings. Johnny lived with a lot of unanswered questions. Who was his real father? Why did a cruel twist of fate take away his chance to play major league baseball? What could he possible offer a woman of Lilly’s stature? He and Lilly embarked on an emotional journey that touched the lives of all around them. Neither of them could have imagined how their own quest could be a catalyst for a father finding his son and two people learning the difference between perfect and “almost perfect.”
Almost Perfect edition by Barbara Khan Literature Fiction eBooks
Almost Perfect is far from perfect. It was a good story, with likable characters whom I really cared about, but the many flaws made it a less-than-perfect novel.The story jumped too illogically from time period to time period, with very few clues to indicate the time period of each chapter. At one point, I thought it was 1949 because one line read: "The year was 1949." But the next thing I knew, one of the characters was opening a 1956 bottle of wine. There's another point in the novel when the timeline suddenly jumped back, with no clear transition. There are also many confusing changes of scene and changes of point of view.
Another flaw is the unevenness of the story-telling. Some parts of the novel are somewhat detailed, while other sections are sketchy and read more like a synopsis of a novel.
The worst thing about the book is that it is very poorly copy-edited. The book is full of misspellings, mispunctuations (missing or misplaced commas and apostrophes and especially a lot of problems with quotation marks), and misuse of words. These many errors are very distracting and sometimes make it difficult to follow the story. (Notes to Ms. Khan: a fortnight is two weeks, not two days; "leukemia" is not spelled with a capital L; "Wilkes-Barre" is spelled with a hyphen; and Wilkes-Barre's population is a lot more than 8,000, then and now. And what is a "perspective" bride?)
There also appear to be some anachronisms, but I'm not sure. In the 1950s and 1960s, did people use the phrases "politically correct," "sports bar," and "doable"?
This is a good story, and with extensive editing, it just might be almost perfect.
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Almost Perfect edition by Barbara Khan Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Barbara Khans debut as a new writer shines in her portrayal of love and humanity and how it can unfold in the most unlikly of circumstances. Five stars for penetrating the layers of human conciousness when the twists and turns of life can land us on our heads and full us with cunindroms. Ms. Khan unravels the mysteries of our human complexitites in a wonderfully creative twist captivating our attention and pulling at our emotional intelligence.
Almost Perfect is far from perfect. It was a good story, with likable characters whom I really cared about, but the many flaws made it a less-than-perfect novel.
The story jumped too illogically from time period to time period, with very few clues to indicate the time period of each chapter. At one point, I thought it was 1949 because one line read "The year was 1949." But the next thing I knew, one of the characters was opening a 1956 bottle of wine. There's another point in the novel when the timeline suddenly jumped back, with no clear transition. There are also many confusing changes of scene and changes of point of view.
Another flaw is the unevenness of the story-telling. Some parts of the novel are somewhat detailed, while other sections are sketchy and read more like a synopsis of a novel.
The worst thing about the book is that it is very poorly copy-edited. The book is full of misspellings, mispunctuations (missing or misplaced commas and apostrophes and especially a lot of problems with quotation marks), and misuse of words. These many errors are very distracting and sometimes make it difficult to follow the story. (Notes to Ms. Khan a fortnight is two weeks, not two days; "leukemia" is not spelled with a capital L; "Wilkes-Barre" is spelled with a hyphen; and Wilkes-Barre's population is a lot more than 8,000, then and now. And what is a "perspective" bride?)
There also appear to be some anachronisms, but I'm not sure. In the 1950s and 1960s, did people use the phrases "politically correct," "sports bar," and "doable"?
This is a good story, and with extensive editing, it just might be almost perfect.
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