Review: I Want a Refund!
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 12 26, 2011
This is the most poorly edited book I have ever paid for. I'm sorry if I offend the author, as this is a result of poor education, and THAT'S where the blame truly lies, but this book is priced about the same as a professionally published one and for that price I expect better editing.If you don't mind that, it's an interesting story.The errors are not ones that are caught with spell-check, cuz they are properly spelled. However, they have a completely different meaning.For example: the author uses "there" for every variation of the word when "they're" or "their" should be used; the author uses "allot," which means "to ration out" as in "we will allot each speaker 30 minutes to talk," where the word should be "alot," which means "many." The author uses "no" (which means negitive as in "yes or no" where she should use "know" which shows knowledge as in "I know the answer." "WOMEN"is used where it should be WOMAN. Caricature for character. CarbINE monoxide instead of carbON.Also, about 25% of the 361 pages coould be cut out by cleaning up the repetitive stuff. There are a lot of sentences that stat wit, "like I said..." & repeat what the author wrote earlier. For example, we are told no less than 5 times that one town is a ghost town.And that's just for starters. The author also uses quotation mark for no reason, such as in the sentence, she was a whopping "twenty three" years old. I "think" I figured out about half-way thru that parenthesis was the proper punctuation for much of those. Capitalization is misused in places such as Pears and wild Onions.Basically, this is an English teachers nightmare and that makes it VERY hard to read for those of us who are aware of these things. I really want to finish it. I've only read up to a few pages into the 2nd chapter before I stopped to see how much I paid for it...then became angry when I saw the price.If you're like me and notice bad grammar and punctuation, and it drives you as insane as it does me, then wait until the author puts out the edited version. April has several books out, and people seem to like them, but I won't be buying them because the lack of editing makes my eyes bleed and gives me a migraine (I only TOUCHED on the errors). Wish I could get my money back as I really feel ripped off. The author should be paying us instead...or offer a bottle of Tylenol with every purchase.Sorry April!