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Jul 07, 2012ShannonGreenlaw rated this title 1 out of 5 stars
I'm not even halfway through this thing and am losing patience. Do eBooks not deserve even a cursory attempt a proofreading? I don't expect perfection, but a little effort? Something that indicates this wasn't written by someone's clever cat on an iPhone with a twitchy auto-correct? For example: a reference to someone living in "gentile" poverty. *sigh* I'm pretty sure they were going for "genteel" rather than commenting on religion-based poverty. It's a pretty blatant error and should have been caught by even the newest of newbie copy editors or proofreaders. There are a few cases of the wrong word being used. I'm not talking about synonyms and a slightly different word choice. I'm talking about a word that makes no damned sense in the context of the sentence. Random hyphenations throughout. I get that eBooks are a little quirky in this regard, but it started to get a little extreme. On a single page, Mr. Cadwallander's name has an unnecessary hyphen inserted three different ways in the middle of a sentence. I do wish they'd stop putting in hard dashes. The point of this rant: the story is silly and tenuous enough without dodgy formatting, typos and bizarre word choices jarring me out of it.