Review: Writing is Sophomoric
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 05 14, 2014
I am surprised at the 3 5-star reviews.  I couldn't make it through the first novel due to the sophomoric writing and the obsession of detailing (with excruciating detail) why the main character wanted to be and was a mixed martial arts champion.  Of course, there were the usual numerous editing/grammatical errors but this author's promoter has many of the same yet, at least, has an interesting story.  Maybe this would be a more appealing novel if a real editor cut out the redundant parts. The story might have been engaging had the writing been higher than an 8th grade level along with suggested editor!!!  As it is, I can see teenage boys (maybe???) - or girls - wanting to read this but only if they are also obsessed with mixed martial arts competition.  The one star is generous due to my having to give it a star at all.NOTE:  I purchased this for $.99 when J.R. Rain promoted it.  I returned it this morning due to not even being able to make it through the first 1/2 of the 1st novel.It is distressing that J.R. Rain promotes books with so many typos, sloppy editing and so many grammatical errors.  I checked out the other "books" and there are many who have seen the same thing.  I am assuming that the main readers are our young people.  As children and youth, we were encouraged to read to learn new vocabulary (and it was always taken for granted that the editing would have been done well).  With so much "self-published" or published by those who don't care, we have an onslaught of "literature" (and, I use that loosely!) that will make our young people think that incorrect grammar and bad editing is the norm.