Review: Formatting and other issues
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 4, 2012
I am only 3% into this book, but because I love lakes, bears, inns, etc., it seems like it will be a good story.My issue first is with the formatting.  It is double-spaced...or more...which makes it extremely awkward to read.  Others may not have this problem, but I find it distracting and difficult to read.  This is a book, after all, not a high-school term paper.I am afraid I WILL have problems with the writing, if the errors in the first 3% are any indication.  I will just use this sentence as my example:  "If Leeza hadn't been wearing a white chef's jacket, no one would ever guess that she worked in a kitchen, let alone be in charge."  This sentence is just...wrong.  There is a mix of tenses, for one thing.  Since "hadn't" is used in the beginning, she should have said "noone would ever HAVE GUESSED that she....".  And the "let alone be in charge" is not correct.  Think of it like this (in school we learned to break down the sentence structure to see if something fits...at least, we did this decades ago.  I think nowadays teachers must be teaching "texting" instead of grammar.)  Anyway....if you say "no one would ever have guessed that she be in charge" it is obvious that "be" isn't the word to use there.  "...no one would ever have guessed that she WAS in charge..." is the way to write it.Maybe they say things differently in Canada though :-)