I honestly cannot understand the amount of five and four star reviews this book has, because it's not a question of taste and preference, here. A book where only a couple of other readers seem to have found this a problem.

I felt robbed, tricked, taken for a fool that I was reading a book that hadn't been worked upon, a book where the author jumps from one verbe tense to a different one in the same paragraph, thse same sentence. She also rushed the ending and it felt so contrived and silly, as I was reading her notebook where she jotted down her idea for the final chapter but didn't expand on it. At least search through it for improper grammatical use, for the confused words, for the typos. Don't be so eager to publish, so hungry to get it out there if it's only a rough first draft. Let it stew for a few months before you start working on it. But if you can't afford these outsourced services, then please, please, please re-read and revise your own book. I'm the one person who really gets this as I'm on that very same boat. I get it not every writer has the means to pay for a proofreader, an editor, a cover designer, a formatter, whatnot. This was the first draft no author should send to their betas, let alone publish. This was blatantly disrespectful from the author, who didn't find it fitting to give her readers her very best work. I don't let it hinder me, nor do I mention them on my reviews, when they're the odd one. I've said this before, I'm very, very lenient with typos and misspelling mistakes, when they're the odd one.

Because it hindered the reading experience far too much, and it annoyed me far too much, and it pulled me out of the complete immersion into the story I was craving for. I wanted this book to be a great, great read.īut I was presented with what felt like a hasty first draft, something the author didn't even bother re-reading and revising, full of typos, glaring grammar mistakes, misspelled words and errors that I could not let pass. I loved this strange universe she created and wanted to fully immerse myself into it. I loved the storyline and the plot, I loved the characters, the world the author built. This could have been a really good book, a great one even. It left a bitter aftertaste in my mouth, a sense of disillusionment made greater by the unexpected amount of four and five stars afforded it by most of its readers. I'm going for three, but this is a 2,5, honestly. I don't know what stars I should afford this book.

The Kalarthri by H.M. Clarke