Review: Very poor editing, very cliched
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 04 25, 2014
Major lack of editing: YesBeen There, Done That: Yes and YesPredictable: Definitely soDid I want to stop reading 1/3 of the way through, 1/2 and 3/4...yes, yes and yes, but I kept going to be fair to the author that maybe, just maybe the ending would make up for the first 1/3, 1/2 and 3/4 of the book. It didn't! My thoughts while reading the book was how juvenile the writing was. Interestingly enough when I finished I read other reviews to see if the feelings were similar and that same juvenile writing theme was mentioned by others.One other thing that annoyed me is the amount of "he teased"/"she teased"/"I teased" (18 total when doing a search) with the same applying to the word joked (replacing teased with joked). Some of the annoyance factor had to do with the fact that the teasing or joking wasn't even referring to that particular character teasing or joking another person rather it was how the author relayed what that person was saying.I'm sorry to the author for not liking it, but I just didn't. I'm not a writer and recognize it's not an easy job especially contending with as many self published books as there are today who have the same story line over and over again. However, if you're going to bother putting fingers to the keypad, use the editing feature. Have friends or other interested parties review it for the majorly glaring mistakes. I think the first mistake was on page 2 of the book. I knew immediately it was going to be a tough read with more to come and oh boy was I correct. Sometimes I can get past the errors if the content was good. That was not the end result with this book.Why did I give it a 1 versus a 2 star? The author's response to the feedback from some reviewers was defensive and written with poor judgement. Again, I appreciate anyone that is willing to put "pen to paper", but if you really want to make it beyond your first three books (at least for this author), take the feedback as constructive and try to incorporate it into your future prospects.