Review: No spoilers here
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 2, 2014
as I tend to critique the writing rather than the story. That said, I loved the story, because I love disasters, but this book is unusual in that it started out strong, and moved in the proper direction without dragging the story out with unnecessary, filler-text. The author stayed on point, building excitement and tension as he wrote. Did you, the other potential readers, know that newspapers are written at a sixth grade reading level? . . . just an FYI as a point of interest.I never thought I would ever even think this, but the word, that, needs to be used more frequently in this book. Usually, the word, that, is over used, but not in this case. I have never seen this happen before, and in its own way, is actually worse than too many, as it impacts the flow of the sentence.There was also an appalling lack of commas. The brain is a wonderful thing, in this case because it will generally cause the reader to pause where a comma should be placed. However, there are many instances when the text in this book is such that a pause is missed, the mind recognizes this, and the reader (in this case, me) has to stop to decipher the sentence, mentally adding commas as appropriate.In lieu of a red pen, I mark errors in red on my Kindle and, in this book, I have begun adding notes. Here are a few of my issues, apart from the two already mentioned:- reckon is not a commonly used word in most locations . . . I think the author has seen too many County Western movies or funny commercials- lacks hyphenated words as appropriate- missing words- missing/incorrect punctuation- British wording and cant expressions . . . . the setting is California- improper word choice- poorly written- lacks editing-- author forgets the gang-banger-speak in places- writing style differs . . . more than one writer?I could not justify giving this book more than a 3 due to the sheer volume of mistakes, but  would recommend it as a book to purchase as the story is great.