Review: It's a Burden, all right. Just kind of a dumb one.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 05 1, 2014
"Burden" is hard to read for several reasons. The story was so awkwardly written and rife with errors. There were several times the author lost track of who was speaking, used run-on sentences, strange word usage ("I opened the door a splice") and some truly baffling phrases like "I brandished her lips" and "we should go," she secreted.. Secreted? Ew! One of the chapters was even incorrectly marked with the wrong character's name; come on, that's just sloppy.The story itself was just kind of dumb. You have to continually suspend your disbelief over a heroine who never went to school and was treated as a slave, but magically taught herself to read. Same person, not allowed to socialize with others, treated cruelly all her life, says "no $**t" to a person in power just two days after being rescued from her tormentors. Right...The rest is just silly, over-wrought, hand-wringing emotions. The couple and their insta-love were hard to care about. Any interesting or difficult problems offs the clan were immediately solved or just glossed over. A big deal about a mating ritual was covered in one sentence, no description of the event.And, omg, if I had to read another instance of "my bear, her bear, his bear, our bears," I would have had an aneurysm (which this author spells "aneurism"). Really, no other word for bear? Animal, beast, predator, my other self, anything would have been an improvement over "my bear" every other sentence.All in all, it's a childish story told in a very childish way by an author who may be writing the way she speaks, but has very little grasp of vocabulary, grammar, sentence structure or proper punctuation.I have to say, this book has set a new low in my estimation of self published authors. I almost want to go back and rewrite reviews for other books that, in comparison to "Burden," seem so much better now.Would not recommend this to anyone, unless I really disliked them.