where was the editor???
920326
I am  long time fan of Publishers Weekly. I trust their reviews and have for many decades. When the P.W. reviewer wrote "while the prose is at best serviceable," bells should have gone off; but i was persuaded by the positive notes in the review and tried the book.

It never reached its best as i slogged through a third of it. It is so poorly written, so poorly developed, I couldn't go on. I have to wonder how it could ever have been released...except publishers have their quotas to fill.

One star is one too many.
947864
The content of the book was good, but the book was FILLED with spelling and grammatical errors. Was there an editor at all ?
434571
Was this book  edited? There are so many errors  information on one page conflicts with info in a box on the next; the beginning of chapter two repeats a paragraph and fails to complete the next one.  And I'm just beginning chapter two.  There's clearly a problem  either the authors failed to review the proofs, or the editor fell asleep on the job.
2727614
Have to agree with the other reviews. This is a sadly missed opportunity, as though someone just sat down, typed it out without looking back to check facts, and then it was published.

There's some really cool stuff in here, so it's a totally frustrating experience to have to sift through poor editing and weird dead-ends (pardon the pun) when it comes to paragraphs. They end more abruptly than one of Sarah Winchester's false doorways.

Then there's things like San Jose State's ghosts...he didn't even investigate the 10th street parking garage, which has been a scene of multiple suicides, crimes and murders (I swear that place is on an ancient grave or something, the tragedies keep happening and I won't go anywhere near it if I can help it).

This could have been so amazingly cool...too bad!!! I was so intrigued and excited to read through this and now I feel as if I never got the entire story, just little news blips!!! Unfulfilling...
4803430
I concur what many of the other reviewers have said that this book desperately needed an editor.  I'm sure the information contained in it is correct, but the lack of a table of contents seems to be a symptom of the whole in that there is no logical order of the information presented...no systematic working through the camera from front to back as it were, just a random train of thought.  I stopped reading and just went and scheduled an in-person tutorial instead.  Too bad.  I was really hoping for an equivalent to the For Dummies books Canon did which were enormously helpful.  Maybe Fuji needs to consider producing one themselves instead of just a manual.
1648115
You state that you personally read every review. Well I just read the Zoo crew series and I had already read 2 other of your books previously. I love your books ... obviously I do  BUT WOW do you have a huge editing problem and maybe some other issues. When I see "sense" for "since"  "reign" for "rein". I, with my background as an R.N., would like to have the sentence from Tracer explained.  "Riley bowed the top of his head."  Our heads are a unit, you cannot choose to bow the top or middle or side of it. All 6 of your books that I have read, while I have enjoyed the stories themselves greatly, I have been VERY DISTRACTED by these really basic errors.
3994439
The editing was terrible!  The spelling and grammar were incorrect and there were even missing words and partial words!  It seemed as if someone from a foreign country edited this book!  I even think whole lines were missing because sentences didn't even make sense!
3201394
Did anyone edit this manuscript?  It is full of grammatical and others errors.  At one point Cindy is talking to
Kendra at the jail and in the middle of the conversation there was a "said Wendy."  I thought the story line was brilliant but will not read this author again because of the sloppy manuscript.
998028
All in all, a good story... but the book is poorly edited. Mis-use of "there" for "their", a whole chapter repeated and a reference to an American rock & roll band called The Dan Mathews Band... Really? Come on! If you are going to brag in the introduction about how well researched your book is and how all of the coordinates listed are real, couldn't you get the name of the band the writer name dropped correct? It's the DAVE Matthews Band. Things like this destroy the credibility and integrity of an otherwise good story. This would have been a REALLY good read if not for the clumsiness of the publisher.
2159392
The chapter that contains Washington's Farewell is missing about 50% of the content.  Many paragraphs were edited out, without the reader being aware of it.  Makes me wonder what else is missing that I haven't noticed.
3129349
Pretty good story, but oh my gosh!!! Do book editors no longer exist? So many spelling errors ("m" instead of "rn" was the most common). Looks like this author used some automated software that mixed up the letters. Made for a very annoying read.
2665041
I liked the story. But. as a retired English teacher was so distracted by the lack of editing.  There were elementary homophone  errors example: quite used instead of "quiet"and basic punctuation mistakes all through the novel.  Because of that. I feel like it wasn't worth my 99 cents. I wonder if the author is aware of this lack of quality.  I'd be mortified if my name was on this work!
2919226
The storyline held my interest but my overall enjoyment was ruined by the frequent -- and most egregious -- errors in grammar, syntax, and spelling.  Is it truly so difficult to find a competent editor or proofreader?  Mr. or Ms Burnell, you have much potential as an author but I cannot emphasize strongly enough the responsibility you have to your audience to write clearly and competently by correctly applying the rules of the English language.  At the very least, learn the proper uses for the apostrophe.  Please?
414612
There's a glaring clunker of a typo in the fifth sentence of the hard cover printing.  Let that sink in a minute...the fifth sentence of the book, and even the editor no longer cared.  "I tiptoed out, their [sic] trying not to wake my wife..." If it's a case of using ''their'' for ''there'', then the comma's misplaced.  If not, then it's a completely random word sitting smack in the middle of the fifth sentence of the book.  Either way, it's inexcusably sloppy work by quite a few people, the author included.

Writing styles vary widely, and I always hate to say that anyone's is bad, especially someone trying to tell their own story.  I'll just say that this wasn't for me.  It felt very self-consciously sentimental, and could have used an editor who could have helped the author polish his work.  It's a shame when a book's potential is completely wasted by shoddy workmanship.
859345
would have been nice to know it was edited. I think I'm old enough to listen to bad words! not happy!
535556
I'm not sure if English is Dallas and Melissa Hartwig's first language or not, but the editors should have caught the glaring mistakes before this book went to print!  The introduction, written by Luc Readinger is lovely, and made me want to read more, but shortly after reading the intro I was overwhelmed by grammatical mistakes.  One small but extremely annoying example that is repeated frequently ":.. foods make you more healthy". I'm sorry, but foods make you healthier, not "more healthy" ( healthy, healthier,  healthiest).  If they can't get the grammar right why should I believe that the science is correct?
The really annoying thing is that the science might indeed be correct!  I understand that the language has been simplified so that the average joe can understand what is being said, but that can be done with the proper use of grammar.  Educated people do know the difference!
3068065
I'm still struggling through this book - having a very hard time with writing I can only describe as awful.  Is this someone's PhD thesis from a third rate program?  Were there no competent editors around to help this poor soul structure this information clearly?  Is it a bad translation of a clumsy tome by someone who doesn't understand English sentence structure and grammar? I find myself mentally editing almost every sentence which does not make for a pleasant reading experience.  I was thinking maybe this thing was self published so maybe there was no editor - but no, there's a paperback version. Somebody should be fired for that level of incompetence. I was also wondering who published this thing since they will obviously publish anything.

And what is up with all the five star ratings?  Standards, people!!

At least it wasn't expensive.