Review: Desperately flawed Kindle edition
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 02 16, 2013
I hate to give a book a low rating based on technological flaws instead of story, but in this case I believe that's the only reasonable way to handle the situation.First, let me say the story would be an enjoyable read were the Kindle edition not rife with technical errors. By the end, I was gritting my teeth and forcing myself to finish because of an attachment to the characters and their plight. That's the good news.Many other reviewers have commented upon the same thing that drove me batty: Missing words, sometimes entire phrases or partial paragraphs, caused frequent reading stumbles. The problem grew worse the further I read, until by the end, every page -- and sometimes every paragraph on every page -- resembled Swiss cheese.Normally, I excuse minor formatting errors in ebooks. Mistakes happen. Often, the publisher (or the author, if the book is self-published) discovers the problem and issues a corrected version as soon as possible. More than two years after its release, the desperately flawed Kindle version remains unfixed, and the glitches are anything but minor. Why? To me, such an oversight indicates, at best, a lack of attention to the market; at worst a callous disrespect for readers.I enjoy Alexis Harrington's work, but my disappointment with the completely fixable flaws in the Kindle edition was so severe I do not foresee investing in her future ebook endeavors.