Review: First half seemed almost perfect......
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 1, 2013
....The second half must have been written under a deadline pressure.  The amount of grammatical mistakes was just very distracting.  And on top of it all, she thanks her editor/beta reader.  Really!?!??! Who was the beta reader....a foreigner with no knowledge of English?  Perhaps it's an indictment of our public education...but shouldn't an author be a person who excels at language regardless of the educational system?  Shouldn't an author know the difference between plurals and possessives?  Or that 'desert' and 'dessert' are two completely different and distinct words?  You could excuse a one-time or two-time typo --- but throughout the whole book they eat desert? And unless you're writing dialog that reflects a regional vernacular --- the past participle of 'drag' is 'dragged' -- not drug.  There were so many typos as well, extra words in sentences that seemed as if the author changed her mind mid-sentence but forgot to go back and delete the original part of the sentence.  I needed to constantly go back and re-read for context clues to see which made sense.  All in all it was too much distraction and too much work for the money.  I'm glad I just borrowed it to read and didn't buy it.  Suggestion to the author:  Get a beta reader/editor who understands English grammar for your sequels.