Review: Author needs a dictionary
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 11, 2013
I'm only on chapter 5 but the improper use of words is very distracting. I'm not good at spelling so typos don't usually bother me and often I don't even notice them. But when the author says there is lots of space travel going on at the Martian landing base because they are at "apogee" that just didn't sound right. Merriam Webster dictionary says apogee means: "the point in the orbit of an object (as a satellite) orbiting the earth that is at the greatest distance from the center of the earth". That just doesn't make sense. Why would traffic pick up when the distance is the greatest. I'm sure the author meant perigee.Then later when they are on the star ship headed to the asteroid they are being given a tour of the greenhouse. The main character's friend wants to show him how cool it is that they can see the stars and the dome turns "opaque". That is the opposite of transparent and means you can't see though it.There are lots of words that are left out of sentences like "to, or, for", that kind of thing and I can fill those in but the mistake of seeing stars through an opaque roof is pretty stupid and interferes with the flow of the story.The story isn't too bad so far so I'll keep reading but the author should definitely have a friend who is good at grammar proof read his work before publishing.