Sinner (The Wolves of Mercy Falls Series Book 4)

by Maggie Stiefvater

Above us, the sky grayed and then pinked.

after all the English spellings it was with shock to notice that grey is spelt the American way.

Should I have had the donuts outside?” I asked.

Why now American spelling?

Cole sighed a third time, as if this was his favourite flavor of all.

another American spelling. There is no consistency in this book which is annoying.

Jeremy sat on a tire, looking at me and the ocean.

keeping with the English spelling this should be "tyre".

He picked a nub of rubber off the tire and flicked it on to my chest.

tyre

Contempt oozed off her voice and pooled around the tires of the Saturn.

tyre

The concrete floor between them was marked with big loops of tire marks, some smeared sideways.

tyre

Then I opened up the back of the SUV, got out the tire iron, and closed the hatch again.

tyre

I tightened my grip on the tire iron.

then whirl over to seize a busboy for a bit of dramatic theater.

she writes "centre" but then uses "theater" and not "theatre". Why? There is no consistency. Were the proof readers not up to scratch?

The house was located in the Hollywood Hills, in a high-altitude fancy neighborhood that overlooked the lights of other, slightly less fancy neighborhoods.

neighbourhood. One either keeps all the "u's" or leaves them out, not this mixture of sometimes using them and then not. Very annoying!

The worst part was that eventually you forgot about the people you loved. The dead ones and the ones who raised you and the ones you wanted to be with at the end of the day.