Review: Bootstrap Colony review
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 17, 2013
For  .99 you can’t go wrong, unless editing issues drive you crazy.Positives:A riveting story on colonizing and survival, with a lot of modern technology used, not survival with just a knife and bow and arrow.  This author really did a great job on research on what it would take to create a modern civilization in a hurry.Negatives:which is why I gave it 3 stars instead of 4.Editing issues:  it appears that a spell check program was used instead of real editing.i.e.• Taboo used consistently throughout when s/b Tableau• Frequent, incorrect tense such as ”knew” instead of ”knows”• A few sentences were impossible to figure out because of incorrect words substituted for what should have been there.• Missing punctuations that would have allowed for a smoother read• Lots of Dangling Participles.****  Minor Spoilers ahead ****Plotting:The first part of the book where Mitch is alone and setting up his camp was too long and became somewhat boring, the paced picked up when he started interacting with other people.As more and more people came into the story, there is not enough different voices and conflict with each other, some but I would suspect that there would have been much more considering the stress of what they had gone through and human nature being what it is.The attempt at humor is rather crude and juvenile and will probably be appreciated more by men then women.The story ended rater abruptly with a major issue left unresolved, is there going to be a sequel?