Review: Oh my gosh. A difficult read but okay story
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 22, 2012
What can I say about this one? Well my dear mother used to say, "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything", so I'll let the book speak for itself. Below are some sample sentences. It is like that all the way through. Sentences that run on into an entire paragraph, punctuation and grammar errors big enough to fly planes through, irregular use of quotation marks, apostrophes on random words, lack of capitalisation on proper nouns like names. The swapping of third then first person perspective, some times in the one sentence. Constant misuse of to and too. Words like "cities" spelled as "city's".  Constant use of the word "then" instead of "than". Naming of two main character's names as Jack and Jake caused me some confusion, as it obviously did the writer as it is clear he got them mixed up a couple of times too.It is a nightmare. It is like a 10 year old wrote this, a semi-literate 10 year old. That said, the story line is good, and the character development good as well. if you can get by the grammar and spelling the book is good. The spelling and grammar does improve as the story develops.The story line is a wild west post apocalyptic world, set not too long after the remains of an asteroid hits the Earth with the typical mutants and plagues. Not too different from many other post apocalyptic novels I have enjoyed. However the story line is fairly simple, a group of talented gunfighters seek a cache of weapons, and after finding them, fight a very one sided battle against an invading army then form a new society. But well,  ... here, read these sample sentences and you'll see why I gave it 1 star.He headed for the only Saloon in the town from which the sounds of music and laughter were coming , after stepping down he looked around the animals making up his train , the big spotted riding mule and the four big red pack mules , behind all of them were two dogs looking to be border collie crossed with Aussie Sheppard's a Male and a Female , both with the wild eyes of their blood lines, both sat looking at the man , he spoke his first words of the day he told the female "high watch" and to the male he motioned with his hand , he went over and laid down under the pack mules while the female jumped up on the pack of one of the mules and laid down and was still.All of the sounds of laughter died instantly as every head turned toward him . Then to the huge beast with him, everybody there knew Jake Tyree was in the place, after looking around a bit Jake nodded at the room and headed for the bar .Jake looked at him a moment and said I want that bottle of Jim beam sitting on the back bar, the one with the seal still in place , the bartender laughed and said mister that bottle is worth more then you have and pointed at a price list.