Review: This Is A Wonderful Book, But...
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 06 20, 2013
I love the characters in this book enough to give it four, or even five, stars. There are so many good things about this book. It is racially and ethnically diverse, the personalities of the lead characters are radically different, and yet complement each other. The amazing depiction of an otherwise "straight" young man finding love and passion with another man for the first time is downright beautiful.But I have recently decided to give extremely low ratings to books that distract you from the plot and characters with endless typos, grammatical errors, incomprehensible sentence fragments and similar failures to edit. I don't know if it's the genre (M/M fiction), the authors (are so many basically illiterate?) or Amazon.com's editing (or non-editing) standards, but the basic quality of so many of the books I read in this category is reprehensible. Perhaps it's self-publishing?Whatever the cause, the authors and Amazon owe us better. Amazon delivers flawlessly in merchandise, music and video, but delivers embarrassingly poor quality to our Kindles."He lay there enjoying the after math." Oh yeah, well how about the after Science or the after English Lit - definitely not the latter."He looked down at the man bellow him." - what, was the man screaming up at him?"He at looked him" - endless misplaced and repeated prepositions."He turned a180" - what is that, a highway? Did he turn left or right?And this author apparently doesn't like commas much, breaking up sentences into fragments:"Although he was happy. He was also worried".Not all of these are direct quotes, but each represents multiple examples of egregious editing, page-after-page throughout the book.It does the author a disservice, because I rather liked the book and might consider buying the whole series. It does the reader a disservice because I paid actual money for this book. And it does nothing for Amazon's reputation.This has to stop. It is insulting. It seems I do more proofreading of my own reviews than the authors, publishers and Amazon, combined, do of the books I've purchased here in the last few months.Therefore only 1 star for a book that should have been 4 stars or better.