Review: The kind of book that gives indie authors a bad name...
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 06 4, 2013
This is easily the worst book I have ever read... and that's saying a LOT. I am utterly dumbfounded by the number of positive reviews for this... "novel".When taken as a whole, the premise wasn't a complete loss and in the hands of an actual writer it may have even been polished into something palatable. The writing is the worst I've ever seen since navigating the indie scene on the Kindle. There's just nothing there... the characters are non-existent, the dialogue is laughable, the prose is weak, and the sheer volume of misspellings, typos, incorrectly used words, and punctuation errors is mind-boggling. The story as a murder/paranormal thriller would have been just OK if the writer had any clue whatsoever as to how to build suspense. The gory scenes, instead of supporting and building the drama, were obligatory, puerile, and juvenile at best.I'm not being cruel for the sake of cruelty, and I rarely leave negative reviews...ESPECIALLY for indie authors...but the existing reviews for this book are wildly misleading. It had the feel of a short story that had been written by a mediocre junior high student that had been padded for length.