Review: Hopelessly Bad.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 06 19, 2012
I read about 4% of the book and found no reason, other than self-torture, to continue.  This writer is obviously an amateur who needs an editor.  "She stood froze, (sic) hoping that it would pass before she passed out or screamed from the intense pain of the cold." was enough for me.  Should she have used pass and variants in the same sentence?  How about "hoping it would pass before she fainted . . ."?  I think that would work better.  ". . .looking like a fruit. . "  What does that mean?  She describes the protagonist's best friend:  "She was the receptionist at DuPree and her best friend.  At the moment, she was also an aspiring playwright and trying to create a play about a female pirate who as the true mastermind behind Black Beard. . .:  No subtlety here.  I recommend that the author read Stephan King's "On Writing", particularly the parts about back story and self-editing.  All in all, an unreadable mess.