Review: The story is sweet.....
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 10, 2013
The story is very sweet. Unfortunately, the sentence structure and syntax (ie. the grammar), the improper use of adjectives instead of adverbs, the outright incorrect vocabulary liberally sprinkled throughout.....all of these combined to ruin the reading experience for me. Now, I am not trying to be unkind, but the book reads as if it was written by a teenager who is used to texting rather than writing, and who failed elementary English. It is a shame because the story is a lovely one to read, but unfortunately, I had to stop and mentally restructure a sentence just about every paragraph (if not every other sentence), in order to understand what was being related. On several occasions, the sentence structure actually appeared as if a non-native English speaker had written the book. I normally do not come down this hard on authors who have errors in their writing, but in this book it was so distracting that I almost gave up reading by chapter 6. As it was, I skipped whole paragraphs just to avoid having to redo sentences in my head while I read them. I would have given this a 1 star rating, but the author clearly wrote a sweet romance story. I would be willing to read more of the books in this series at some point in the future, IF she finds a very good proofreader with a strong knowledge of English grammar and vocabulary.