Review: Rooting for the good guys means wading through typos
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 27, 2012
To enjoy the story fully my initial advice would be: DO NOT READ THE SYNOPSIS!As many of the other reviewers indicate, this author needs to be introduced to the proper use of an apostrophe. The weird substitution of periods (I.d, we.ll, let.s) does indeed distract, but I will not belabor the point.What got to me were the typos and other peculiarities.I am not familiar with how conversion to Kindle affects formatting, but it was annoying to see the following:1. Almost every page had the title bar somewhere in the middle of the page with sentences broken up around it.2. Sentences then shifted down a line part way through.3. Words which one usually sees as one word were split or hyphenated so you'd see things like re-new, tight rope, heavy weight, pre-occupied etc.4. Plain old typos with dropped letters: "I you want" instead of "If"; misused words "stand-bye," "feel myself loosing it," "Pit it in glove compartment," "was going to off sick"; "better to error on the side of..."; "allusive" for "elusive"; "perspective" for "prospective," etc.5. Misplaced order of clauses (my favorite was she was found "partially clad in a small field.")OK...now that I've vented enough about typos, I will say that I finished the book and felt the author did a good job of letting the reader get to know the main characters, Mia and Joe. I saw them as very human and appreciated Joe's occasional fling with dry humor. I also appreciated the respectful tone that the Mr. Rennie took toward the several older women characters and the homeless men.I will happily pick up another book in the series.I mildly disagree with the reader who said the bloody scenes were well presented...some of the gruesome aspects made my stomach churn, and I skipped over a number of paragraphs.Hopefully the author periodically checks the reviews and get a heads up on the crying need for better editing. It would shoot the books up to a four or even five star rating for me with adequate proofreading.