Shattered Innocence - Kimberly Whitner-Hill (Review)

To begin with… Do not mistake this book from the 1988 version of the book and movie. This book just happens to also be called “Shattered Innocence.”

This book is very short when it comes to length and it is an easy read when it comes to grammar. However, with that being said…  The book is poorly written and has manygrammaticalerrors.  Such as when the word should be “gone”…you have the word “gown” instead. I found these errors throughout the book.

I felt the author had a good story line she was trying to convey, but failed to have much continuity throughout. Oftentimes the author would start off telling you about an incident in one paragraph and then in the following paragraph she jumped several years and you were left with the feeling of “what happened???”...during those “in between” years. There doesn’t seem to be much “closure” as each plot progresses.

I almost get the feeling that she was a little “scattered brained” and got distracted a lot when she wrote the book. It was as if dealing with the laundry, kids and other everyday duties caught her “off guard” and when she was able to return to work on the book, she lost her train of thought.

The author also very rarely introduces her characters before she starts mentioning their names. She will start off mentioning the names of the characters and then within the next paragraph or two she will relate to a father, mother or other family members and you kind of have to spend a few moments going back and re-reading the paragraphs around it to determine which name goes with which character??? To be honest…there was one occasion or two where I never quite figured it out.

Again… I truly believe the author had a very good story to tell. I am in no way negating or belittling the pain that these characters went through and the healing that took place. But with all the grammatical errors; loss of continuity and flow to the story line and plots; minimal to no introduction of the characters in the story…the readers are left more with the roll and duties of being “honorary editor” of this book…rather than a captivated audience.