Review: Good story, horrible delivery
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 05 19, 2011
I got Second Chance Romance as a freebie from Amazon - apparently they did a price-match.  I enjoyed the story of Kip and Mandy, and their second chance at happiness.  I almost didn't finish reading the book, though, honestly.Why?  Because of the grammar / lack of editing / lack of proof-reading / call it what you will.  There were several to / too errors, missing letters, missing words, punctuation all over the place.  Several is an understatement - there were errors at every location of the book.  The dialog was very stilted, as well.  Some of the errors I just didn't understand, because I don't see how they made it out the door had the author done even a second read of her work before publishing.  Truly.I almost gave the book one star.  I didn't because it is my belief that a one-star rating implies that a book had no redeemable qualities.  So that put it at two stars again.  Then I got to the end of the book and read this note from the author:  "This book is written with Canadian spelling and average grammar skills.  If you notice anything horrible feel free to email me.  (...) with the problems an I'll edit and update the book."  That irritated me enough, because of the implication that she KNEW the work was poor on a technical level but didn't care enough to fix it, that I nearly gave it one star again.  I finally decided on two, because, as I said, the story was a good one.I would HIGHLY recommend sampling this before downloading, even though it's free.