Review: A good start, but needs to be proofed
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 07 13, 2013
Overall, I enjoyed the book, and I will be reading the next book in the series. However, there were a number of errors in the story that pushed me to giving this a lower rating. (Let's hope Book 2 does not continue this trend.)On of my biggest peeves is when an author does not use the standard formatting in regards to the name of ships, books, movies, magazines, TV shows, etc. These names/titles should always be printed in italics. There were too many instances in the story where the names of ships were not italicized to even begin to list them.Another peeve is the use of "txt speech." If you're wanting to abbreviate the word "okay," then spell it "OK." And if you're going to abbreviate the way a character says "okay," then at least be consistent. I mean, how many nanoseconds were saved by writing "'Kay" instead of "okay" or "'K" instead of "OK"?There were a number of word choices that did kind of bother me, but I will attribute them to differences in usage between American English and Canadian English (or British English, too). These were things like the word "imbedded" being used instead of "embedded"; "boogey" being used instead of "boogie"; "overran" instead of "overrun".There were also a number times where the first letter of the first word in a sentence were not capitalized. This happened too often to keep track of them all. There were also a number of times where words were just made up, like "aboveground" instead of "above ground".Other error examples:"us" is not the same as "as""then" is not the same as "the""supply" is not the same as "supple""our" is not the same as "out"