Review: I Guess it's Not the Worst Book Ever... Maybe
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 06 28, 2014
This book was a waste of time. Though I finished it, I had a difficult time making it to the end. Luckily it was pretty short. This book was not worth the money and I would not recommend it for anyone.First of all, the book was definitely not edited. I am fifteen and still spotted a ton of grammatical and spelling errors. These errors were primarily easy fixes such as replacing are with our or any way with anyway. I have a high tolerance for these types of distractions, but there were so many errors, I could not look past them. There were even run on sentences, which I believe are inexcusable in a published novel. Also, there were often changes from present to past tense, and occasionally this happened within the same sentence. For example Goldberger would say something like: Emily walked over to the mall and open the door. These errors were extremely distracting, and many of them were way too obvious to be in a published novel.Another problem with this book was the use of "for". Though it is difficult to understand how the extreme overuse of this conjunction was distracting, trust me it was. There would be sentences like: Jay knew that Emily was his mate for she was  the most wonderful person ever. (Obviously that is not a direct quote I am just trying to make a point). First of all there should be a comma before for, but that aside, Goldberger hardly ever used a different word to connect clauses when she could use for. I mean what happened to as, because or even separating the clauses into two separate sentences? Nope it was just for this and for that.I don't want to add another problem to this review, but while I am at it can we talk about the title? Emily was "marked in a vision" sure, however, this incident was not groundbreaking and did not affect the novel as a whole.The worst part of Marked in a Vision however, was the point of view, which is to say there wasn't one. Seriously, this book was told in third person, but Goldberger took that to a whole new level by literally telling it from everyone's point of view. These shifts in whose perspective was being show cased were not separated by anything, except once or twice when Victoria was at her house. One minute Jay would be thinking about Emily and the next sentence would talk about Sasha worrying about Mark. The book could have been told in third person from Emily's point of view, but it wasn't. For example, a few sentences could go like this: Emily could not stop worrying about Jay. Sasha walked in with Stan. She missed Mark, but knew he was safe with Jay. The "she" in the last sentence was Sasha, but initially one would think it was Emily who was thinking about Mark. This style of writing made the book confusing and difficult to understand. Because of this, I had to struggle to understand what Goldberger was actually trying to say, as well as what was being said.I am very sad to say that this book was not worth reading. The story was good, but between the large number of grammatical errors, use of "for", and bizarre point of view, a potentially good book was  ruined. There was simply no editing, an I question Goldberger' s heart for writing. This is very unfortunate because I did want to become connected to the characters of the novel. I could not see through the errors however, and this proved impossible. Gave this book two stars instead of one only because I feel there was a good idea behind this book that was lost in translation. A book should be a joy to read, not a struggle. I had to fight to understand what was being said, and that is what truly doomed Marked in a Vision.