Review: Running with scissors
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 09 16, 2013
Although I gave the book two stars the writer has potential but needs work and not just with editing. SPOILER***She has a distant character arrive on earth and give the Sumerians writing 2800 years ago. She needs to add another 2000 years to it for it to work. Then at the end of the book she refers indirectly back to this character as 200 cycles ago after telling us a cycle is the same as a year.She also has the aliens speak English except for a few token words just because. Apparently we are to believe that all human-like civilization speak it. Why English and not French, Spanish, or so many other languages I don't know. In many places it is very stilted. And then we can talk about the times she does things like use ridicules instead of ridiculous. If you don't have an editor get a friend to read the book, read it out loud you might catch some this yourself and also you might end up removing some the stiltedness from it. Still she has something she just need work.