Review: Disappointing
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 08 24, 2013
First and foremost, I did not read this entire novel. If a plot is intriguing and characterization adequate, I'll stick with a story despite a minimal amount of SPAG (errors involving Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar), but if the story is trite, and the prose weak, I'm high-tailing it back to my Paperwhite's home screen.When I saw that this plot was based on time travel, I said UH OH, because there seems to be a spate of these time travel plots where the author says it happens, and the readers are supposed to say, Okay, with no substantive explanation for how this time travel occurs. Early in the novel I read this sentence: "Lyra, come on! We don't have all day," Helen snapped me back to reality."Perusing a few additional paragraphs made it clear that this author doesn't know what a dialogue tag is. 'Day' in the preceding sentence should be followed by a period. 'Helen snapped me back to reality,' is not a dialogue tag.This may sound like nitpicking, but I won't apologize for expecting a minimal degree of professionalism from someone who calls him or herself an author. If you don't know the difference between a sentence and a dialogue tag, you've gotten ahead of yourself. Read books, study the craft, then publish your novel.Good luck to you.