Review: A great disaster novel with too many typos
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 18, 2013
Yellowstone Conundrum, by John D. Randall is definitely the best Yellowstone disaster book I’ve read (out of 4 or 5) and one of the best natural disaster books I’ve ever read. It follows several different people/groups (almost too many) of survivors as they cope with the aftermath of an 11.2 earthquake plus Yellowstone’s eruption and a 9.45 earthquake in Seattle. A nuclear meltdown increases the action. It is a long novel (9000+ kindle pages), not too long due to the action and disasters. Lots of violence and growth/development of the characters, into places you would not expect. In addition, although the novel ends satisfactorily, there appear to be sequels on the horizon.Unfortunately, there are far too many typos and some are quite annoying: ‘eminent’ is used for ‘imminent’, ‘mote’ for ‘moat’, ‘busses’ for ‘buses’, Dr. Adams, in Costa Rica, suddenly becomes Dr. Harris. Other typos include ‘pararie’ for ‘prairie’, ‘sizzors’ for ‘scissors’, ‘priesent’ for ‘prescient’ (I think), ‘dispair’ for ‘despair’, ‘aftenroon’ for (possibly) ‘afternoon’, repeated use of ‘petal’ for ‘pedal’ and ‘’petal to the medal’!, Kevin Cosner for Costner, ‘pillows of stone’ for ‘pillars’, ‘Ashville’ for ‘Asheville’ and many many others. There were many words missing their first letter as well.In spite of these errors, I did enjoy the book, the characters were well drawn and the action unrelenting. Hopefully, the author will get a proofer or just use his spell check next time.