Review: A review I hate to write
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 03 11, 2013
The problem is that this could have been an outstanding genre book.  The plot is good, plausible, not full of cliches, not full of holes, and capable of holding the reader's attention.  The characters are well individualized.  But . . . the writing is so awful that it's physically painful to read it.  If a person took out all the comma splices, one could practically re-lay the transatlantic cable with all the little hooks.  Pronouns appear with no referents.  If one tries to diagram the grammar of a lot of sentences, it just can't be done, because it's not clear what is meant to be the subject and what is meant to be the verb.  I gave up trying and skimmed through to find out what the end would be.