Review: waste of my time
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 04 13, 2014
First, I want to say that I have the utmost respect for anyone who can come up with an idea for a book, write the book & then have the courage to publish it. That said, this book was a waste of my time, but at least it was a free download.Nowhere in the description did it say that this is not really a complete book, merely the first part of a book. There was absolutely NO ending, just a teaser for the next book, which is really only a continuation of this book. Shame on Dr. Carlson for not making this clear in the book's description.The characters are almost absurd caricatures of good & evil. I know that not all scientists or researchers are solely altruistic in their motivations, but this was over the top. Is there nobody in the research company that figures this out? Would the VP of the USA & his medical team (as well as a US Senator) really opt for untested treatment, especially without doing their due diligence?The book switches between 1st person (Steele Russel) & 3rd person narration & it's a bit distracting.There were so many errors in the book -- typos, misspellings, strange punctuation, incorrect words, etc. that it became annoying & sometimes difficult to follow. There were also inconsistencies, such as mentioning that the character was wearing shorts, & then a few pages later, saying that he hiked up his pants leg to reach the knife strapped to his ankle. Steele has been given driving directions & is told that once he turns onto the road, the house is 200 kilometers down the road (the book says it's the equivalent of 2 football fields); he means it's 200 meters, not kilometers. A kilometer is 1000 meters. The most glaring error was a basic medical/biological one: when a woman first misses her period, the fetus is not 28 days old -- conception occurs mid-cycle, not during a woman's period. This would have been bad enough, but the author is a medical doctor!Don't waste your time!