Review: I would rate it a 4 if there weren't so many errors!
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 09 18, 2012
Quick Summary:Jerry thinks he's just your average guy. That is until he's bitten by two different vampires in the same night. Vampires who don't even spare a glance for the two other guys with him. Jerry soon finds out that there's something special about his blood. Something that could cure all vampires, or create a super race of them.What I didn't like:I read this book in ebook form and the errors were extremely distracting. Every single apostrophe was replace with a quotation mark. The paragraphs would end mid sentence and pick up where they left off in the next paragraph. Or someone would finish a sentence and the paragraph would end, but the next paragraph was still a part of that person's conversation. I got confused. A lot. There were grammatical errors like using the word "was" instead of "were" and a decent number of words were misspelled. There were times when the narration would jump from one person in one paragraph, to another in the next, and then back to the first narrator again. I know this book is self published so without a good editor I would expect some errors, but there were too many in this book for me to overlook.What I liked:The story line is really good. It's fast paced, really interesting and overall entertaining. There were some parts where I literally laughed out loud.For example:"A lot of stuff is real," Jerry nodded."Is Hogwarts real?" Sarah whispered in all seriousness.I got a good laugh out of that one! Though it's probably not as funny taken out of context. The characters are relatable. I had no problem connecting with them and caring about what happened to them. The story line, while it's been done before, was really well thought out and enjoyable. I didn't get bored or annoyed with the story or characters. It really, really was a good story.Overall:If all of the errors in this book were corrected then it would receive 4 stars from me. As it stands now, I have no idea what rating to give it. I'm going with a two because the errors bothered me that much, but it really makes me sad to rate it so low because the story is so good! If it's ever revised or I get a hard copy then my rating will change. But the errors are so bad that it kind of ruined the book for me. I would like to read book 2, but I won't do that until I confirm through someone who has already read it that the errors aren't even half as bad as the errors in Blood Heavy.