Review: "Sophmoronic" read, don't bother, not worth the time
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 12 16, 2013
I disliked this book so much that I deleted it from my library before I reviewed it. The story, told in the present tense, drones on like an unedited NaNoWriMo manuscript and it needs to be rewritten from the ground up.The author's point of view was sophmoronic (stet), and the condescending narrative writing style, cumbersome. It's almost as if a hostile high school dude wrote the book as a porn script replete with gratuitous clinical sex. "Cum," really? Gratuitous kinky sex? Where did that come from? And how does this advance the storyline or plot, or inform the reader as to character development?I wanted to like the basic story but the shallow, robotic language was so irritating—by the sixth mention of the heroine, Karin, as the 'young intern," I wanted to throw my Kindle across the room. The lawyer's name was Author? Really? The author couldn't even give the lawyer a name? How about Anon? The characters themselves were flat, one-dimensional, and devoid of any character whatsoever.I won't mention the myriad typos that a good spellcheck would've caught. But the author's basic sentence construction and grammar are weak as well. His rudimentary grasp on the forensics of how the English language works, and his working vocabulary of less than a thousand words—hinders both storyline and plot. Even a good copy editor couldn't have saved this manuscript—for to call it a book, is a misnomer. More like an outline for a porny potboiler.As one reviewer stated: the reader should not have to work harder to read a book than the "author" did to write it. I spent far too much time re-reading sentences that were missing basic subject/object; and too many verbs and nouns were MIA. Another reviewer nailed it: written with the sentence structure of an 8th grader.I am a forgiving reader, and will read most any book to the very end—I read this ebook all the way to the bitter end. I wish I had the common sense to put it down, and not finish it. I also doubt the author's gender—not that it should make any difference. There are many fabulous writers writing from opposite gender pseudonyms. A waste of time. Luckily, no real trees were harmed in the publishing of this ebook. Wish I could say the same for my Kindle. Minus five stars.