*snort* if you know your book has errors or that you need to hire an editor -- why the hell are you publishing it for sale to the public? Why not wait until you've saved up for an editor or gotten a publisher to provide one for you? What gives you the right to sell an unfinished, uncorrected faulty product to the public and not expect bad feedback? Why the hell do authors feel reviewers already spending money or time on a book are also obligated to review only if offering copyediting services for the next revision? Why does it matter that an author has four kids? Would that change anything if the reader was recently unemployed single parent of six kids?
How does the real life of the author or the reader matter one little bit when it comes to determining if it was a good read for the reviewer or not?
Why not just put up on a blog or other platform and ask for beta readers? What kind of author takes a review from a stranger and heads for the thesaurus because one reader did not like one word or the frequency of a word?
I looked at the book on amazon - it looks like a total ripoff of Black Dagger Brotherhood (not that I've read BDB, but ...) It also looks like a trope fest. And like it sucks biomechanical donkey dicks. That cover is effing hideous.
*hangs head in shame* I confess to liking BDB so long as I don't have to read too much at one time—well, since I've learned to ignore instaluv and skim the parts being inside bad guy's head (those go on forever) I can enjoy. As predictable as a 1970s Harlequin Presents and I blame the series for popularizing supernatural "instaluv", but I like them well enough.
That said, I have zero desire to read an unedited ripoff—least of all by an author who feels a string of synonyms can easily place what should be a well-chosen word.
The writing is effing hideous. "I have an overwhelming desire of passion igniting my flame." Good gods. 'I'm kissing him like a frenetic woman." Her writing is bad and that's a compliment.
L'Eggs bring back pre-Easter church flashbacks for me. Those plastic containers got washed and we made gobs of chocolate covered peanut-butter/powdered-sugar eggs for sale using them as molds. Which isn't as tasty as it sounds because it was the chocolate that had lots of culinary paraffin wax melted into; I'm a chocoholic and did not want to lick the spoon.
(I now have a sneaking suspicion these comments are going to be more interesting than the book.)
How does the real life of the author or the reader matter one little bit when it comes to determining if it was a good read for the reviewer or not?
Why not just put up on a blog or other platform and ask for beta readers? What kind of author takes a review from a stranger and heads for the thesaurus because one reader did not like one word or the frequency of a word?
That said, I have zero desire to read an unedited ripoff—least of all by an author who feels a string of synonyms can easily place what should be a well-chosen word.
L'Eggs bring back pre-Easter church flashbacks for me. Those plastic containers got washed and we made gobs of chocolate covered peanut-butter/powdered-sugar eggs for sale using them as molds. Which isn't as tasty as it sounds because it was the chocolate that had lots of culinary paraffin wax melted into; I'm a chocoholic and did not want to lick the spoon.
(I now have a sneaking suspicion these comments are going to be more interesting than the book.)