Review: problems abound, not as good as previous books in the series
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 04 2, 2013
It's really too bad I have not much good to say about this book, as I rather liked the first books in the series, despite a number of word misusages and a lot of prose that needed pruning.  This book, however, is so awfully written I am desperate for it to end.  I'm not even done yet and I can barely make headway and don't think I'll finish...because the previous stories' problems are exponentially worse!  First, there is the disconnected prose that usually involves big, multi-syllabic words used incorrectly, coupled with the fact that the ideas don't mesh.  You jump around all over the place in the writing, and it takes pages to get anywhere, leaving the reader frustrated and guessing as to what the author is trying to say.An example:  "My gaze drifted towards her, but I made them pass quickly as if she were some insignificant thing skulking for favour."  Huh?  Them refers to what?  And 'skulking'?  That's not what it means, which is: "to move around or to wait somewhere in a secret way, especially because you are going to do something bad."Anyhow, the other books have similar problems, and the problems increase with each volume; but this volume is seriously in need of copyediting to fix grammar and other issues.