Review: Liked it but.......
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 17, 2013
I read the first three books of this series and found the story line entertaining.  I may have even given 5 stars except for a few issues.  The one that would keep this author from ever getting 5 stars from me even if the rest of the book were perfect, is the author's determination to use the word I, when the word me should be used.I am finding this problem popping up more and more in the books I'm reading and it drives me CRAZY, because it is so illogical.  If  a sentence is correct when it says, James decided he would like to go to the store with me, why would adding any more people into the mix of who was going to the store, suddenly necessitate using the word I instead of me?  It makes no sense, but authors continue to do it.  You would not say James decided to go the the store with I (you would say me), soooo.... it is NOT correct to say James decided to go to the store with Sue and I.  It is CORRECT to say James decided to go to the store with Sue and ME.  No matter how many people you add into the mix, even if you list 200 people who are going to the store, the correct form is ME.  This all has to do with Objective Case vs Subjective Case, but you don't need to understand all of that.  All you need to do when you are choosing to use either the word I or me, is to leave all the other people out of the sentence and see if the word I or the word me sounds correct.  Once you determine that, you can add all your other people to that correct form of the word and the sentence will be correct.  There are a few instances where a sentence is a little strange and you may choose wrong when deciding whether to use I or me, but if you use the simple test of leaving out the other people to determine whether to use I or me, you will be correct 98% of the time, which would be much better than being incorrect 98% of the time, like this author is, any time he/she has several people doing something.I said there were a few reasons for not giving 5 stars.  Another reason is  that the female lead is obviously very unintelligent, although the author continues to assure us she is a genius.  In book one for instance, she continues to go on walks alone, even though every time she does, she is attacked by the folks trying to get to her.Lastly, the author seems to being trying to stretch her story over as many books as possible, instead of telling her tale and ending it.  I started to feel like it was more about getting me to buy another book, instead of the author telling the story.  Consequently, I will not be buying book 4.