Review: nice series, horrible editing
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 8, 2012
First off, the series is well worth the time it takes to read, although, some of the egregious misuse of language almost became to much for me. writing a series such as this is obviously a huge undertaking and I congratulate the author for finishing it but I can't understand how the same word misuses crop up in all five books. The author substitutes the phrase "hold up" in place of the correct term "holed up" too many times to count in all five books. "Then" and "than" are frequently substituted and I came across an instance where a character says that he would, "just assume come with" (in place of "just as soon"). I attributed this to lazy editing until I saw the same phrase used in a subsequent book.Like I mentioned, the series is well worth reading but errors such as these reduce the authors credibility more than the simple grammatical errors that occur in most self published works. Please Mr DeCosmo and all the other up and coming self published authors out there, find someone to proof read your work. I would be more than willing to proofread manuscripts free of charge and I am sure there are a lot of others out there who feel the same way.