Review: Editing problems...
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 1, 2013
Aside from the odd misspelling and solecism (including "you're tie is crooked" and "last" for "least"), there's a gross continuity problem towards the end of the second "book" in the series, in that the protagonist gets furious at the hero for disregarding the exact same sort of death threat that she received a few pages earlier, but didn't mention it at the time, nor later when she discovers that the same threat has been delivered to her lover. In fact, she rants at him for quite a while before she finally admits that she's received a similar threat, and that the potential killer had been standing a few feet away from both of them. Surprise!Give me a break... The first words out of her mouth at the moment she received the text and attachment *should* have been, "Me, too!" and full disclosure made, like any normal genius with a gift for seeing relationships between disconnected facts, as she's said to be, would have done immediately.In fact, the threat to her itself had an obvious relationship with her reappearance as the steady date of the protagonist after an abortive start, which she should have seen immediately and commented upon, as the resident genius at least, if not a sensible human being. Exactly how many death threats with photographic evidence of dangerous proximity does it take before it stops being a "joke?" Did she ever stop to think that with that many photos being taken, the culprit could almost certainly have been identified, just like the Boston Bombers?What a maroon, as Bugs Bunny once commented in a roughly similar context.It's also irritating to have each of these novelettes described as "full novels," which appellation at roughly fifty thousand words they would qualify for only in children's and particularly simple YA literature. Three chapters of the first instalment reappear in the second, and presumably the same pattern will be followed in the third, so the description only holds in a very generous sense.Women's romance fiction is usually eighty to a hundred thousand words, with many upward excursions from the "normal" range for stories with a broader scope, if you'll pardon the slight bons mots, up to almost three hundred thousand words for the popular Outlander historical romance novel, which is admittedly very fat. At a hundred and some odd thousand unique words, these three slim volumes in total add up to roughly one "normal" romance novel. One might be forgiven if one imagines that the primary purpose of this subterfuge is to raise the total price, but then I'm a bit of a cynic.