Review: Please proof read your book before publishing!!!
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 12 9, 2013
One of the wonderful things about electronic publishing is the ability of authors who can write great stories to get their stories out there. One of the downfalls is that they often do so without seeming to care about basic punctuation, grammar and proof reading. This book lacks basic writing skills, dialog is at times absurd, characters did not appeal to me in any way and the descriptions illogical.This book is a great example of a book that could have been good but is not! I am about two thirds of the way through the book and will not waste anymore of my time trying to figure out the gross punctuation errors, the stiff conversations and poor sentence flow. Sure, I know the writer will give me a "not Helpful" comment, but I really wish someone would take the time to just clean it up and make it readable and not insulting to the reader.Some places to start:  location 270  "you are only just thirteen"...location 357 "her curly hair was caught up in one"  ONE WHAT?  what is her curly hair caught up in???  Is that part of the mystery???Speaking of hair, another character has dread locks for hair, not to be confused with dreadlocks! I guess I would dread it too if my hair was  locks.....location 256 Harry tells Rowe to "stop titivating Rowe"  Soooo; Rowe is titivating Rowe; wonder what that looks like.location 700  ...."project that I have always wanted done and now I am going to have to investigate the competition for a presidential position I am not sure I want to do that." (keep in mind that is only the second half of the sentence)"it's not me dad"location 962.. "his voice said to her"  ok, he didn't say it, his voice did...978 "...thought you had resolved in your thoughts..."location1020 "they both had a faint resemblance when she catalogued"....yes...it is spelled that way in the book...not my point here.  My point is that it is a good thing they both had the resemblance because I hate to see if one resembled the other but the other didn't resemble the other... though that could have added to the mystery...1183 "Taj got up early in the morning to jog and to better acquainted himself with the neighborhood"location 1222... "Little societal mores are learned from a person is young for a reason you know." This just does NOT MAKE SENSE!!!location 1391 "I can't dance in these shoes so this has to be a rock."1472 "..had four cups of coffee on his desk, all of them empty."  Look, you can either have four empty coffee cups or four cups of coffee, but you can't have four empty cups of coffee. It just can't be done.I could go on, and on. I read whole paragraphs to family members and we laughed as we tried to figure out what the point was. We still quote some of the one liners, which is really sad when the author wasn't going for funny.One is left wondering about all the 5 star reviews here....