Review: Wrong copy of product uploaded maybe?
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 9, 2012
First off, let me start by saying I really enjoyed this book; for a first book, the author did a really good job delivering her story. The cover is absolutely GORGEOUS and while the concept is a popular one, it gave a different insight to the inner workings of a rockband, which I enjoyed the heck out of. I really enjoyed that (not really a spoiler) Seth wasn't this coked out sex fiend that Devi had to 'fix'; which is SO popular these days in rock-star romances. But there were some things that prevented me from giving this book a higher rating.I'm not normally one to play the 'typo' card; If the plot and characters are good enough, it's easy to overlook simple grammatical and spelling errors. However, I think the author uploaded the version that one of her editors went through with a digital 'red pen'. It's a simple mistake to make; and I'm sure it has (hopefully) already been brought to her attention and she's working on it...hopefully.There are these weird 2 letter indications that, at the end, i see is someone's commentary? They're is like a page dedicated to it, which is why I believe the real 'final product' wasn't uploaded.  Also, because of this eyesore in random parts of the book, I started to notice about 40 grammatical/typos. Two, 2, too, to (Most use the rule of thumb that numbers are only used for address, and phone numbers) The author should look into replacing '2' with two, and pay attention to the difference between 'too' and 'to'. "If you want me too" is not an appropriate usage of 'too'. Also, it's best to write out the word for numbers vs using the number because using a number like '2' and '5', etc, really mucks up the flow that readers get into while reading a good book. Next, 'were' and 'we're'. I saw this used a handful of times, as well. Next, 'intact' does not equal 'in tack'.(In the scene where our h/H are at an arcade and she beats him at a game he says 'I want to leave with my pride 'in tack'; please correct this..PLEASE.) There are some that I'm sure that I've missed, but I would definitely recommend to the author to re-edit and update, because the book IS good, and I would hate for others (much more rude than I; they're known as the grammar police and we all  know how much they love to rip on new authors lol) to give this book a one star rating and tell all their friends that this book sucks because of poor grammar. It doesn't suck; it just needs to be edited/corrected and 'updated' on Amazon. Since this book is pretty much brand new, with corrections none would be the wiser (except for this review, which i would be more than happy to update to a higher rating once these corrections have been made). Oh, also, if you're going to make up words like 'ghandiesque' (which took me a second to figure out what you were trying to convey), it would be better to say zen, or (if you absolutely have to use that word) put 'Ghandi-esque' so people understand the description you've made for one of your characters.In it's current format, I would probably only recommend it to friends who really don't care about grammar, but since I'm an English major (I bet you could tell already) as well as a writer myself, I have a lot of friends who are the 'grammar police' I was referring to. AGAIN - I really loved the story, but because of the fact that I think the author uploaded one of the copies used for editing, it was really hard to get into at times.Final Rating:Plot - 5 starsCharacter development - 5 starsCover - 5 starsGrammar/spelling - 1 starSteam Factor - 4 stars.