Review: A Complete Waste of Time
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 12 31, 2013
Maybe it should have been a warning to me that The Purging was the thirteenth book I read during December. It was one of the worst books I have ever read. (I would say the worst, but I've had the misfortune recently to review so many bad books that I hate to tempt fate.)As other reviewers have noted, the Goodreads synopsis sounded promising. Unfortunately, Reed Bosgoed's horrendous writing and the complete absence of any coherent plot destroyed the book's potential. I am one of those irritating people who always sees typographical and grammatical errors. Usually, I feel compelled to note them on my Kindle as I encounter them; it was a measure of how abysmally written this book was that even I finally gave up marking all of the tense changes, punctuation errors, misspellings (a simple run through grammar check would have pointed out that assent, ascent, and accent have different meanings), and ridiculously poor word choices (I can't think of the last time so many people "wended" their way somewhere).I agree with reviewer Lillian that The Purging can best be described as "a screenplay for a really bad action/horror flick." Had I not felt the same ethical obligation to finish and review the book expressed by reviewer Telma *.*, this book might have been the first book ever to defeat me.I strongly encourage Bosgoed to find a good editor and proofreader before he even considers publishing the second volume in his Eons of Darkness series.I received a free copy of The Purging from the author in exchange for an honest review.