Review: Eh but needs lots of polishing
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 02 17, 2013
It's clear this a debut and a self published one at that. This book could have been better with an editor. More substance, more length and a whole lot of grammatical editing.The lack of contractions was a little weird. I am a mess, I am not sexy, It is good to see you. People speak in contractions. I'm, I'll, etc. Especially all the "I am" littered like crazy in this book.An editor would have red-penned the hundreds of I am's out the ying yang here. The heroine's Chinese born mother's lack of contractions works because most non-native English speakers do speak stilted and without them. But American, born and raised despite mom and dad's heavy accents and such speak with contractions.This book read like an extreme rough draft. The first draft the author wrote and just hurried to slap a cover on and a price tag.There's a decent story under all the roughness but it needs a lot of polishing to make it shine.Overall: I got it for free but right now it's $2.99 and not worth it for the shabby condition it's in.