Review: Cassandra's Definitely A Challenge
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 13, 2013
There is a good story here, but I can only give it 2.5 stars. It is worth reading if it is re-issued with at least 90% of the mistakes taken out. I believe that everyone who bought this book should receive a refund until the book is fixed and re-published. Then you can charge us with a clear conscience (not a clear conscious).There are multiple mistakes on nearly every page. When there are two pages in a row without mistakes, the writer/editor decided to add 5 or more word usage mistakes, tense offenses, or threw in words that might have belonged in some other version of the book but made you guess what the sentence should have been. Though, honestly, I can't imagine someone actually edited this book.  Anyone with a decent understanding of English could have helped the writer. Why didn't that happen?I think this writer can write, but doesn't have more than an 8th grade understanding of word usage, tenses, or know the difference between words that sort of sound similar. You don't have suspensions of someone, you have suspicions. You might momentarily question a person's motives, but you don't monetarily question them, unless there was a financial transaction taking place. There wasn't.I envy creative writers that can sweep me up into a story and make me care about everything that happens on the pages they write. That is a gift I will support with every review I write. This was a good story, and that's the hardest part of any book. Now do the easy part and please, please hire a reader/editor, because this book as written should never have been released.  Less than a weeks work by an editor would have made all the difference in readability. I'd like to read the sequel, but no one should have to slog through egregious mistakes.