Review to come, but... wow. Just wow. Gives self publishing a bad name. I want this out of my eyes.


Edit:

Okay, now I have had some time to sit and digest, I can be more coherent. I understand from reading other reviews that there's been some recent brouhaha around this author. I couldn't give less of a crap. This review is about this book and why it pisses me off.

Here is a single paragraph taken completely at random at 6% in the book:

Outside she had a full view of what had been blocked by the large copse of trees. In front of her lay a large fenced and gated area of farm animals tucked away safely in their pens. Beyond that sprawled hectares of crop fields and orchards, which were watered by an irrigation system that she had never seen before. It was constructed of what appeared to be pipes, of fireclay material, that extended from the river to the cultivated ground. A small vineyard grew behind an enormous storage barn that sat side-by-side with the house, along the waterfront. Between the two structures was a display of rustic carts and wagons for transporting goods. Behind them, a long, sturdy, wooden ramp stretched deep into the water and supported a huge waterwheel that rotated steadily by the force of the river current catching the wheel's palettes. From a large, wooden box that grew out of the ramp, next to the wheel, ran two sets of thin pipelines, one set extending to the house, the other to the barn.

So yeah. Do you imagine reading a book of that to be any fun? Are you a fan of commas in random places? Words stuck together where they shouldn't be? Love it when any hope of a plot is stalled and then strangled by huge blocks of exposition and description that lead nowhere? Then this may be the book for you.

As for me, it's almost enraging to think that an author has the absolute balls to put out a book this NOT ready for prime time and ask that people pay for it. This book isn't in need of an editor. It still needs to go through several drafts before it's ready for an editor to slog through.

I think that there was an enjoyable novel hidden in there and that this author has talent. I really do. But their learning curve is going to be at the expense of the people tricked into purchasing work like this.