Review: Good story, No editing!
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 29, 2012
There is more to writing a good book than just having a good story to tell.  The best story in the world can be impossible to read when bad grammar, poor word choice, and improper punctuation slow a reader down, and make it difficult to comprehend the story.  Why do so many of these self-published authors neglect the all-important requirement of good editing? There's a reason that publishing houses edit an author's work.  It makes the story better!  Sometimes it makes the story readable.I did like the story. It was imaginative and exciting, and it drew me in. But at times it was difficult to follow, and to know what was going on.  Eventually the author cycled around and gave more background, but it made it hard to understand.  The lack of editing was terrible, and the mistakes so obvious I can't believe they were missed.  Occasionally I had to reread a sentence several times because it did not make sense as written.  I got so tired of trying to read around the mistakes in grammar, punctuation, and word choice that I just used the "go to" feature and skipped ahead several times just to find out how the story ended.If the author writes a sequel (and one is definitely needed, just to warn you), I hope that she will find a good editor to help her correct mistakes and to polish the finished product.  Judging by the other reviews, there are many people who don't care about the editing, but there is also evidence that some people do.  As a teacher, I could not recommend this book to my students as it is.