Review: Good story nearly ruined by HORRID writing
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 09 30, 2013
Setting aside the creepiness of the main character being a high school senior and the love interest being 24 (but she's 18! So what. I pretended she was a college senior, and that worked much better for me), this is a good story. The characters are nicely fleshed out, the descriptions of places, homes, etc., are just right - not overdone, but paint a solid picture. The story is compelling, and accurate enough that the "oh, puleeze" factor was pretty small (I've sadly seen a few heroin addicts in my time, and anyone who has been using as long as Sterling would not be buff with a 6-pack).BUT! Omg, I was so thoroughly distracted by the mistakes that made this book sound like it was written by someone for whom English is not their native language, and they didn't bother to have a single native English speaker check it for them:"This time I've drug an innocent bystander...""I drug those I loved down...""I sprang my ankle" (sprang? Really?)withdraws instead of withdrawal, prepositions dropped ("she sat the chair" instead of "she sat on the chair" - not an actual example, but it was too hard to search the e-book for dropped prepositions)There were so many errors like this on practically every page, that it pulled me out of the storyline. Mainly so I could yell to my husband, "Here's another one! Check this out!"There were also the usual lack of commmas, quotes in wrong places, missing apostrophes, etc., but sadly, I'm getting used to that from e-books.If you are the author reading this, please please please -  I beg you: Get someone to edit this book for you. It is too good to be dismissed because of truly bad linguistics. You are a great storyteller, now become a great writer!