Review: Needs An Editor
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 10 31, 2013
This is a book for the ages of 10-12 years old and not a minute older.  The book is very simplistic and geared towards pre-teens but if the readers are not from Australia, they most likely won't understand all of the slang such as "sook" and other adjectives used.  Kids will be wondering what the heck the kids in the book are talking about.The book is filled with typos, mistakes and extra words contained in sentences and should be fixed immediately.Example:"Alice said out lord."It should be "loud."There are dozens of mistakes like this throughout the entire book.Regardless of writing talent, popularity or 5-star reviews by family & friends, I'll never give a higher rating than 2 or 3 stars when a book offered to the public is riddled with problems.Is the story decent?  Yeah, I suppose.Repair the book (many writers on Amazon have done it) and I'll raise my rating higher.  As it stands now, it's messy and people that expect a properly edited book will give lower ratings.There were a dozen typos, mistakes and either extra or missing words before 40% of the way into the book.