Review: Daring Damsels
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 29, 2013
The only reason I didn't give a 5 star rating to this collectionis because of the awful first book.If you skip the first book by Eliza Knight -- the remaining3 books by the other authors are very enjoyable and rate5 stars.I haven't read other books by Eliza Knight and one canonly hope that this was a first effort.The premise is not bad, but it is so poorly written,the story is almost painful to read.Perhaps English is not her native language.Perhaps she was too hurried to use a dictionary...or a thesaurus .. or a proofreader(obviously, a computer spell checker does not suffice).Some sentences make no sense whatsoever.The words "then" and "than" are not interchangeable.The words "him" and "her" refer to specific sexesand are not viable substitutes for either sex.The words "regale" and "regal" are not synonymous,etc., etc., etc.The errors might have been overlooked as atypographical error IF they were a single occurrence,but they continued repeatedly from start to finishand were so prolific as to not be considered typos.Still, if literate readers can get beyond that first book,I am sure they will thoroughly enjoy the wonderful talesspun by Denise Domning, Catherine Jean andLaurel O'Donnel.~~M Wilkins