Review: the ship was sinking and I had to jump!
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 3, 2012
Let me begin by buffering my complaining with a true statement. This is not the worst book I have ever not finished. Okay, now that I have that out of the way, here is why I didn't finish this book. I have had a lifetime obsession with the Titanic and all things relating to the historical facts of the sinking. This book, although I knew it was fiction, sounded too good to pass up. This is a VERY LONG book and I was looking forward to settling in for a long read full of Titanic-themed entertainment. I have seen that quite a few other reviewers have already commented on the grammatical errors, so I will not go into specifics.This book seemed like with a good line edit, historical fact correcting and a little polish it might have been an excellent read. What I felt I got when I started reading this book, was a first draft. The sentence structure was clunky and distracting and the dialogue was some of the hardest to digest I have ever seen. When you combine those things with the amazingly bad research errors on dates, times and historical fact in general, I couldn't do it. I did laugh, I did cry, but not for the reasons I was probably supposed to. I try to finish everything I start, but on this one I had to jump ship for self-preservation.