Review: Pros = Cons
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 29, 2014
Ms. Linton has a strong voice, talent for description, and a great sense of humor. As I love Stephanie Plum (well, the first 12 books), I immediately saw Laney Briggs as a Texas version of Cupcake/Babe and Pistol Rock as a quirky Texas successor to Trenton. I wanted to dive into this world and get lost in a story about hot cowboys and a tough yet unlucky heroine and the mystery that they have to solve.But. I think it happened when the word "y'all" was misspelled. I started noticing the atrocious spelling and grammar mistakes and they kept pulling me out of the story. When ketamine was suddenly capitalized, I had to stop and try to figure out if this was a special, important version of the drug that was being talked about. When a bottle of Dr. Pepper became a can on the next page, I thought I was losing my marbles. When a prescription vial was spelled "vile" I started wondering if Ms. Linton was just making fun of dumb county folk. And Oh MY GRACIOUS. Please. EDITORS. Learn possessive apostrophes. Not every plural noun gets one. (For example: Khakis, not khaki's.)Maybe it's me. Maybe I'm old and cranky and picky about, I don't know, THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. But the only way I could finish this book, Ms. Linton's raw talent aside, was to start making a game of it: Find the Mistake. My kindle's full of them.  I win.