Review: Misogynistic
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 05 24, 2013
This is about my fourth iteration of this review. I have not read the latest version of the book. The author claims to have fixed my largest complaint and resubmitted the book, so I will adjust my review based on that belief. Most of the comments appearing after this review were made prior to this latest version of my review.I originally wrote that this is a cute story idea but that it was flawed it its delivery. The basic concept is cute, although immature. I guess immature is all right. Here's what I didn't like:-Excessive grammar / punctuation errors. This book is not produced at a professional level. There is really no excuse for this except laziness or impatience. I hope the author will take steps to fix this and perhaps make sure future books do not continue to have this problem.-The characters are two-dimensional; the three main characters were clones of each other with differences in physical description but not really in behavior.-The business successes of the characters was deeply out of line with their place in life and most definitely not in keeping with their intelligence as displayed in this book.-People who are not pilots should NOT write about how someone avoided a crash. Please, it's not hard to find a real pilot to talk to. Those flight scenes were entirely ridiculous as was pretty much the rest of the book afterwards (near the end).-My biggest problem was that the book strikes me as misogynistic. The author says he fixed the biggest reason for my feeling this way (which I will come to), but I don't know if his change reverses my position. In the book, we have Crystal and Beverly, best friends since middle school (IIRC). Bev began calling Crystal by a rather sweet nickname, so Crystal began calling Bev "Beaver". Now, if you do a web search for "beaver slang" you will learn why I might have come away with a very negative view of the author.The author claims to have fixed the issue I had with the nickname. That's a step in the right direction. But still, I will not be buying more by this author.