Review: Great story potential thwarted by poor writing
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 03 9, 2014
Review update:The rather difficult, poor writing in this book simply suppressed any enjoyment I found in some rather interesting and creative characters and settings.  Readers who do not enjoy struggling through unpolished writing but who find the descriptions intriguing may want to skip to a later book by this author.  The prose and construction (and hence basic readability) increases greatly in later works.  If poor writing turns you off but you enjoy the heated mating between buff supernatural men (especially Lycans) with a variety of interesting, spirited women (especially witches and fae) intrigue you, you may want to a later book by this author.----------------Original Review:When it comes to paranormal writing, I am normally happy to overlook uneven prose, grammatical errors, and uninspired plot devices and simply focus on enjoying interesting mystic elements and/or sizzling, fantastic matings.  As such, the summary of this book and the overall plot seemed to align well with my interests, but I just can't get past the poor writing.  Others have pointed out problems with grammar, so I will just add my annoyance with the extraordinarily excessive and inappropriate use of dashes that constantly interrupted the flow of the text.  Even worse, many sentences run on and on, bringing together four or five separate ideas strung together with generally very simplistic prose.I applaud the drive it takes for self-published authors to take interesting story ideas and the resulting heated encounters and write them out in a novel-sized book.  The creativity and writing in The Mating Season is better than many free stories I have read online, but this work doesn't stand up to my minimal standards for purchased content, even at rock bottom pricing.