Review: Mankind's Worst Fear
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 10 21, 2012
I liked the story line. That being said...the author states at the beginning of the book that he thanks those who helped with re-writes and someone named Chene for editing. Editing? Hmmm. Need to get a new editor. Had that claim not been there, I would have given more slack. For instance, the use of 'to conger' when it should have been 'to conjure' or 'dear hunt' for 'deer hunt' and many more. As for other readers complaining about the female characters being portrayed as weak, etc...well...that is the author's right to describe his characters the way he wants. And those that had complaints about the hill people and their language-it's not an unheard of way of portraying people who have survived disasters. An episode of Star Trek (the original series) had characters butchering the language, and believe it or not, there are hill people alive today that speak in a very similar way, so no complaints there.The switching back and forth between the future and the past or rather present (however you wish to term it) is not hard to follow and actually had me curious as to how it would be resolved.If the author cleans the typos up, and fixes the incorrect tense of some verbs, and cleans up the pronouns I can easily see it as a 4-5 star book, but for now, it's two stars. Note to other writers: don't get in a hurry to throw your hard work out there. Take time to make it right and then present it.