This is why editors are important
Wednesday, March 6th, 2013 06:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tsaikoI mentioned going through my Kindle and pulling funniest of the typos and comments I've made on it. People seemed to be really into that, so I'll do that this weekend.
Until then, I have got to share this gem.I'm reading a story (whose author and title will remain unnamed) with werewolves in it.
A shock, I know.
I didn't actually pay for this book. I checked it out for free because I'm an Amazon Prime member. You can only check out one book per month. When trying to decide what book to check out, I look at both the summary and the reviews. There was a grammar mistake in the summary (which I should know better than to ignore, because if the author can't be bother to spell/grammar check the 3-4 paragraphs that make up the summary, they sure as hell are not going to spell check their entire novel). However, there were 22 reviews as well and the average stars was around 4.5. So I figured I'd given it a try.
Maybe this author had 22 friends or something. Because this book? Sucks. Like a damn Hoover vacuum. How bad does this book suck? There is a werewolf in the book named Heath. Twice now, the author has typo-ed his name and called him "Health.' Yes folks, we have Health the werewolf.
I am less than 15% through it according to my Kindle, this guy is not even a main character, and the author cannot spell his name right. We won't even talk about some of the other problems (15 characters introduced in the first 10 pages, 3 clauses put together with no subject to make a sentence, jumping around in time/space with no explanation or context, etc.). Because it can all be boiled down to "Health the Werewolf."
I somehow don't think I'll be finishing this one.
Until then, I have got to share this gem.I'm reading a story (whose author and title will remain unnamed) with werewolves in it.
A shock, I know.
I didn't actually pay for this book. I checked it out for free because I'm an Amazon Prime member. You can only check out one book per month. When trying to decide what book to check out, I look at both the summary and the reviews. There was a grammar mistake in the summary (which I should know better than to ignore, because if the author can't be bother to spell/grammar check the 3-4 paragraphs that make up the summary, they sure as hell are not going to spell check their entire novel). However, there were 22 reviews as well and the average stars was around 4.5. So I figured I'd given it a try.
Maybe this author had 22 friends or something. Because this book? Sucks. Like a damn Hoover vacuum. How bad does this book suck? There is a werewolf in the book named Heath. Twice now, the author has typo-ed his name and called him "Health.' Yes folks, we have Health the werewolf.
I am less than 15% through it according to my Kindle, this guy is not even a main character, and the author cannot spell his name right. We won't even talk about some of the other problems (15 characters introduced in the first 10 pages, 3 clauses put together with no subject to make a sentence, jumping around in time/space with no explanation or context, etc.). Because it can all be boiled down to "Health the Werewolf."
I somehow don't think I'll be finishing this one.
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Date: 3/7/13 12:38 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 3/14/13 09:52 pm (UTC)Was it completely self pubbed or via a publisher? There's a few that do worse than not editing but introduce errors via lazy editing.
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Date: 3/14/13 10:01 pm (UTC)This one was self-published I think, or may have been published through a vanity press. If there was an editor involved, they should be fired. Health the werewolf was the least of the problems with this book (I didn't finish it, it was that bad). And it was on-sale for much more than $0.99 (though I didn't pay anything for it, thank goodness).
I also have a Harlequin romance ebook where one of the characters changes names half-way through and then changes back to the original name. That one should have been caught by an editor.