Review: GREAT stories, PLEASE get an editor!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 19, 2012
I love these books.  Yes, they can be a bit too pat at times, the characters pretty predictable, but still... delvers, shags, cliff behemoths, river rogues, hook hawks, and many many more - you have to give credit for creativity where it's due!! I've read my share of fantasy and never come across HALF the creatures in this series.  I particularly enjoy the qualities of the delver!That is the ONLY reason I'm still reading them.  The writing is just atrocious. Then is frequently used for Than. Most compound words are separated: he said so any way, she decided to cook some thing, they rose above ground, etc.  It drives me insane.  There's also a lot of redundancy; the author doesn't seem to have a very large vocabulary (or a thesaurus!!): he remains standing among the remaining guards still, etc.  As you see, repeating the word AND re-stating the concept.  If he remains there, obviously he's there still, so why add it to the end and make it awkward?  Also, many sentences just don't make sense.  Either they seem to be missing words, they seem to have extra words, or they seem unfinished.There are still other grammatical/spelling errors, but this is getting pretty long.  As you can see, those things bother me a great deal. Imagine how interesting this world must be for me to continue reading! I'm currently on book 4, and I've marked 158 mistakes at the 23% mark but am still enjoying it!