Review: Great story, terrible editing
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 13, 2013
This review stands for both the first and second book. First off, this book was hilarious....laugh out loud at the crap that came out of Brooks mouth, funny. I enjoyed the story and all of the characters. I only have a few issues. This book needs some serious editing. There are a lot of misplaced letters, missing spaces, jumbled words, overdone descriptions, and one very confusing dream sequence that had me going back to re-read. I couldn't figure out if part of the book was left out or if I missed something, and half a chapter later, I realized that it was just poorly written. I would have enjoyed this much more if it were toned down a bit. The best way to describe it is to compare it to a descriptive writing essay that we had to do way back in 3rd grade when the TAAS test existed and we had to write essays using every creative word and description to describe every aspect of the essay. It is cram packed with overdone descriptive words, and I can tell you that the thesaurus was heavily used! About a quarter of the way through the first book I wanted to give up because it was so cheesy and over written. I stuck with it because despite the writing style, I enjoyed the story and the characters. I did read both books, and when its all said and done I enjoyed them, but if the writing were tweaked and this book were re-edited it would be so much better. I would however love a spin off of Brook and Ben, they made the book for me.