Review: Disappointedly Short
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 12 19, 2013
This review pertains to "Honor Found" (The Spare Heir), by Michael Southwick on Kindle format.*SPOILER ALERT*Okay, so I reviewed the first book "Honor Bound" by the same Author and gave it 5 stars because while short, the price was only .99cents, and as a first attempt, I like to be encouragingly generous. Now I'm pissed...Is there some "School for Unethical Writing & Publishing" out there some people go through where they can learn such "dirty tricks of writing" like "Double-Spacing your lines, and increasing your FONT SIZE to artificially inflate your book size!". Or maybe there's a special class on "How to take a normal sized book and dissect it into three or more parts and call it an 'Epic Series'!"The product info says "Length 230 pages", but in reality, once you remove the double line spacing, it is an 115 page book... hardly worthy of being called a "book", much less a "short story"; no, this is more aptly a CHAPTER really, in a potentially much greater book!To the Author: Michael, Michael, Michael... While more alluring and quicker, the "Dark Side" is NOT where you wanna be my friend. Morgan Rice (Author - "Sorcerer's Ring Series") is suffering now because she yielded to the temptation of the Dark Side.Check out her reviews sometime- She's getting SCATHING reviews from all but her most loyal fan base, of whom I suspect are either family, friends, or PAID reviewers. She's been forced to drop her book prices because as people catch on, they're not buying anymore.Like her, Mr. Southwick has great potential talent, yet it is being tainted & threatened by GREED. He needs to turn off the word counter, and just write! Give us a book, not some over-priced, chapter-sized, enemic morsel.He can do much better than this, and I for one will refuse to buy any more of his products until he does.to