Each book I've read in the last few years I've always started the review off in the same way: each book I read and review starts off with the full heart of 5 stars and I'm forever hopeful that they will all still be firmly in place by the time I finish the book. I'm not shy about removing stars if I feel it necessary though, but I always give my reasons within the review - stars don't just vanish.
The author is American, so I'll try and remember not to comment on the missing u's and reading dollars instead of pounds... I just hope she hasn't used any American brands that I've never heard of and any she *has* used are with permission!
It's one of my longer books at just over 300 pages, so I hope the author has written it so that I don't forget what I've already read when I stop for meals and to go to bed etc, 'cos I'm guessing it'll be a 2-day book maybe?
The first star is coming off already and I haven't even read the first word of the book yet! On my Kindle, the cover of the book is in quarters over the first four pages and there's no way for me to skip past it. The first page of the story is just as bad because it's got the letter D on the first two lines under the number 11 then the first word is missing it's first letter. Unless it rapidly improves it'll be a DNF before I even get to the second chapter!!
The second sentence on the first page, the word "lilac" has been repeated after the full stop without a space. The font is emboldened throughout the first page too, so that's the second star coming off and I'm already getting a headache after reading 2 sentences!!
Oh dear, I'm on the third page and the author has used an American brand that I've heard of, so the next star is wobbly already. I wanna give this book and author a fair chance though, so unless it's repeated several times, the star is clinging on by its fingernails right now.
And now a fashion designer that I've heard of (and I've heard of barely any fashion designers, so that's saying something!)... I'm giving the author one more chance before the star comes off.
And there it goes after the use of a name of a multi-national, probabbly world-widely famous spreadsheet programme. I've given the author and book 3 chances which I think is very fair of me, but there have been 3 star losses within the first chapter, so there's only one left to go before it becomes another DNF unfortunately.
Oh boy. There are all kinds of mistakes, especially the bold font throughout and the extra letters and repeated words fairly frequently. It could just be my Kindle (although other books are fine on it) but my eyes are aching and getting strained which my optician has recently said to avoid, so the final star is coming off and it's another DNF before the end of the first chapter and at only 2% of the book unfortunately.
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