Review: Good Storyline With Major Flaws
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 15, 2012
The Lost Hero (The Heaven Saga Book 1) by Marcus Johnson is the kind of book that makes me want to tear my hair out.  The story has SO MUCH potential, but the book has two major issues.Brian Peterson is your average young American living an average life when he was abducted by little grey men, and experimented on.  Somehow he broke free and killed all the Greys onboard.  Afloat in space in an alien ship, he was rescued by a ship full of strangely colored, beautiful women.  And so begins the adventures of Brian the Terran as he seeks his destiny.I really enjoyed the story.  The plot is excellent.  However there are two issues with this book.  First is a slew of missing words, or what I call "The Missing Words Syndrome."  This occurs when the physical act of typing cannot keep up with the writer's thought process.  The cure for this is proofreading by the author. When I see chapter after chapter with missing words, I question the amount of proofreading by the author.  I deduct one star from my grade for this reason.The second issue is a lack of depth in certain sections of the book.  For example, Mira performs her first dance for Brian.  Yet the author does not provide any description of the dance.  Brian undergoes training with Kivi, but the description to me is inadequate.  Thus I deducted a second star for a lack of details in critical points in the story.The Lost Hero has the potential to be a five star book if the author is willing to go back and polish it.