
My rating: 1 of 5 stars
It could well be that the intention of the author was to bring “confused gender identity issues” to the attention of a wider audience through this book. On the face of it that seems a quite laudable cause and the concept of a daily journal, or diary, written by an individual caught up in some world where these things are causing serious problems, is a good idea. But this book is so poorly written it has a long way to go before it should be presented to serious readers as a published article.
I had only read about 5 or 6 pages before I found myself thinking more like the teacher that I was for many years before retirement, and a lot less like a reviewer of a novel. Almost every page of the book had at least one spelling, punctuation or grammatical error, not just an odd typo here or there. This was most distracting because it completely took my attention away from the premise of the book. When I attempted to excuse the author from this “style” as attempting to write the journal in the hand of a teenager who was unskilled in the correct use of English I found it did not work. Why? because the daily entries in the journal were very tedious and unreal. I doubted whether a young person that unskilled in literate writing would regularly use quotation marks to illustrate speech, even with the poor punctuation scattered through it. The telling of the “story” lacked pace and direction and seemed to end abruptly without serious consideration of what had gone before.
This book needs to be taken out of publication and presented to a beta-reader/proof reader/anyone literate for some serious editing again (if it ever had any?) before re-publication on the “open book market”. As things stand it is doing serious disservice to Adam Snowflake, the author, and all those other indie authors producing a creditable work of literature.
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