Review: Seriously Needs An Editor
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 5, 2013
The story in itself is not bad. I had some issues with the characters - the hero is possessive to the point it started to make me feel like he was pathological. The heroine ended up almost as crazy-possessive as the hero. Throughout the book I found myself making excuses for them - they were this way due to their backgrounds and childhoods, etc. But in the end, it just didn't ring true. I think the author attempted to connect their present day behavior to their pasts, but it just wasn't developed well enough.Honestly, the book is mostly about sex. Very descriptive and fairly continuous. I like adult books, but I found myself getting tired of it to the point that I started skimming sections. It would have been better with less sex and more character and emotional development (can't even believe I just wrote that, because I love a good sex scene, but there you go).As for the editing: nonexistent. There are so many grammatical errors it drove me crazy. "Him and me" instead of "he and I," "me and him" - which is just incorrect, period. There were so many instances of this type of incorrect grammar that I do believe it was not meant as slang or meant as part of the story. There were additional instances of incorrect word usage - past instead of passed, etc. There were instances of sentences that just didn't make sense (unfortunately I didn't highlight any of them and I'm not going back through the book to find examples) and instances of what seemed like the author had decided to revise sentences without removing the original words. It was really grating. While I know I'm not reading great Literature, I do at least hope not to be pummeled by grammatical errors, poor sentence structure, typos and nonsensical sentences.