Review: Language Errors
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 26, 2014
I loved the story line. It was unique and fun and the whole story flowed well. That said, reader and author have an unspoken agreement to suspend belief so that the reader can disappear into the author's world, and when the reader is being pulled out of that world to review the author's odd, or just plain wrong, word choices, the agreement is broken and it ruins the experience. A few examples of what I found:Slinked - past tense of slink is slunk; slinked is a nonexistent word (it was all throughout Deer in Headlights, too, so not a one-time thing)Weaved - past tense is wove, again a nonexistent word (think this was actually from DiH)Raised - wrong as used, as in "his eyebrow raised"; no, past tense is roseGround - wrong as used. Ground is dirt and grass, as in outdoors. Manmade is floor(ing), indoors.Am I nit picking? Maybe. But she's an AUTHOR, and good writing is about choosing words that paint pictures. I'm also pointing this out because the more often people see these strange, incorrect word choices, and Ms. Hart certainly isn't the only one using them, the more it validates them in the English language. And that's too bad.