Review: Struggle is Ok, but Could be Much Better
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 11, 2014
This book was offered to me for free in exchange for an honest review.  While I don't like giving such a low rating, there were a few things that kept me from really enjoying Struggle.There are many, many typos in the book.  If P.A. Jones is a self-publishing author, maybe it would help her out to have a few friends read it for grammar and spelling errors. When there are errors on every other page it tends to trip a reader up and it is a struggle to finish (no pun intended). The author could also use more contractions, the dialogue is very formal, such as "I am coming, I am coming".  Also there are certain spots where the text is bold and didn't need to be.  Understood if there is a text message between the characters and the author wants it to stand out, however these were just random parts of the book in bold lettering, at one point a word was actually the color red.  The last thing I noticed was the characters lived in New York, not too sure if they were transplants or what, but there needed to be a few more American words such as bar instead of lounge, cell instead of mobile, apartment instead of flat and miles instead of meters.  If they are New Yorkers, it makes more sense to have them talk as such.The story of Struggle is Eva and Nathan learning to love or trust each other after bad past relationships.  Eva comes off as very immature, constantly crying or doubting herself and Nathan is just all over the road.  They both have some baggage from the past and they way Nathan took care of his would have had me out the door not bothering to look back.  Never have I read a book where the guy that just declared his love to his new girlfriend did what he did, and the new girlfriend just stood by and let it happen.  I found this to be a very unbelievable plot-line of the story no matter how immature Eva acted.All in all there is some sort of a story here, however it could be better.  The story line is choppy and it definitely needs some beta readers to help with the grammar and flow of it.