Review: Enjoyable Read ***Spoiler Alert***
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 17, 2013
I enjoyed this book.  The story was interesting, the characters engaging.  All in all I would give the story 5 stars.Some of the critics have claimed it wasn't sci fi enough for them and that it was nothing more than the characters going from meal to meal.  I disagree.  The claim that it wasn't sci fi enough is ridiculous.  Space battles, other worlds, world governments that are completely different than our own, even the rain was sci fi.  As far as the meals are concerned, the author used them as a plot device to move her story along.  They discussed things we needed to know, introduced new foods and even used one as an assassination attempt.  They were never more than a paragraph or so, usually just a mention of the meal so that claim too was absurd.The editing of the book is still bad.  However, I will say that it was ten times better than her first book.  She obviously took more care while writing this book.  The problems I saw were the continued use of the present tense, although even there she didn't mix her participles as much and it read more smoothly.The main problem with the book is the author's lack of knowledge of the difference between simple words such as to and too, their and they're, your and you're.  She could most assuredly benefit from a proofreader so that using the word mummers instead of murmurs multiple times in the book would not be a problem.All in all, I will have to say that I enjoyed this book and look forward to her next offering.  This book was much better than the first as far as editing goes so I can only hope that the next one is much better than this one.  Here's hoping the next book arrives soon!