Jun 082013
The Uniform
Martin moved his family to a quiet suburban street to enjoy a more relaxed life. Opening his antiques shop in the local shopping mall completed his idea of an idyllic lifestyle. That was until the nightmares started, pre-empting the arrival of a man with an item that he wanted Martin to take for his shop.
As the nightmares intensify, and he starts to question his own sanity, Martin realises the uniform he was given may hold a link to his family’s past but can he escape the impact o
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I’m really glad this was free!,
I did, I really tried. It is almost unheard-of for me not to finish any book I start, and I tend to be charitable about people’s writing – after all, not everyone can be James Lee Burke or Lee Child. I will read just about anything, if there is something to keep my interest, however marginally. I’m one of those people who needs to know how it all comes out, and I hate to miss anything! This book was so off-putting, though, that I didn’t make it even one-fourth of the way through before giving up. I was so distracted by the grammatical errors, poor sentence structure, and misplaced or missing punctuation that I could not concentrate on the story – I was too busy mentally correcting the errors and trying to make sense of what I was reading.
Even beyond these errors, I found the writing style very stiff and stilted, and the conversations sounded awkward and unrealistic. There was a lot of gratuitous information – a lengthy, unhelpful description of the layout of a shopping mall, for example, that neither gave me a good mental picture of it nor added anything to the story line. Did I really need to know that Martin’s shop was at the opposite end of the mall from Benjamin’s shop? Why was that so important? I’ll never know. This was a free Kindle book, and as I said, I’m really glad I didn’t pay for it. Nevertheless, I wish the author well and hope he finds a better editor!
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