What's with all the italicized thoughts?
357287
This book was recommended to me by a friend who lent me her copy.  I'm so glad it was a "free read."  I couldn't finish it.  Those italicized "thoughts" were just too distracting.  Not to mention kind of hokey.  The more I read, the more annoying they became so I finally put it down.  I did like the story, characters, plot, etc.  Her writing style is just not my cup of tea.
3243847
It is becoming more and more apparent that books are not being edited. There are so many misused words such as me when it should be my and misspelled words. Its a bit ridiculous that the author isn't being more careful. The content is good. Please edit your work.
544453
The story and characters are brilliant, and evoke the time in a way that connects with modern readers. However, Poyer has taken it on himself to use long dashes "--" instead of quotation marks. This is something that I couldn't get used to, in part because there is no mark to indicate the END of a quote. --Go below, Eli said. The first time I read a line like this, I think that it's someone telling Eli to go below. It's actually Eli speaking. 99% of the time there is little confusion, but basically you have to de-code every line of dialogue. A real pain in an otherwise first-rate book.
939575
This book tells the story of Kerowyn after she decides to rescue her brother's wife from raiders and then decides to become a mercenary.

What I want to know is who they have transcribing these books from print to e-book and how do I get their job? I could do a better job with one hand tied behind my back; literally. If I had $5 dollars for correcting every misspelling, every incorrect or misplaced punctuation, every mistake with italics, and every space in the middle of a word, then I could probably go a month or two without working. I lost count of the number of times merc and mercs became mere and meres. Also I don't think there was a single time corner was spelled correctly; it was always comer instead. Mercedes Lackey uses italics to designate personal thoughts and mindspeech and I'm pretty sure in every instance there were random words un-italicized that were not supposed to be emphasized during thoughts and/or mindspeech. I truly cannot understand the use of 1 instead of I either, which happened frequently throughout the book. There was even an H in place of the double l after an apostrophe at one point. Did they have someone unable to read English transcribe this book? Honestly, I could retype the book in a day or two and it would be much easier to read, so how do I get that job?
3230802
I find misspellings disturbing and having read the other reviews, apparently Im the only one who does.  For example, Pierce is spelled like that for awhile before it changes without explanation to Pearce before it changes to Peirce without explanation.  Suzanne becomes Suanne, preamature becomes premature.

Lets see Mary is addressed as Queen Mary which doesnt seem natural to me. Why not Her Majesty or something like that?  Wouldnt a Tudor queen correct someone calling her that?  Im just guessing, of course.  Mary never asks herself why she cant tell Suzanne about her husband.  There are words left out as in waves at her frantically through window that now looks like a waterfall.  Or these:  and yet he us unfaithful;  he planted seed inside me; I don't now if I should; Suzanne asks both us; watching the ran fall outside.

When hearing bad news (cant give away the plot here), a happy nurse bustles into the room and says, how are you feeling?  How do you THINK shes feeling?

Two things stick out most of all about this book:  1.  Im glad I didn't pay to read this and 2. Who edited this crap? (I know theres an editors name loud and proud on the front cover but that has to be a lie.  Theres nothing here to be proud of.)
872296
kind of Meh. they mix up Greek and  Roman names for eh God's add quotes form other Authors and writers. Breaks up the flow of the reading.
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.
4577034
There are probably mistranslated words on every other page presumably due to no editing after scanning.  It makes it impossible to know whether a new word is even spelled correctly.  It also makes it very hard to read.  Here are a few examples:

pardy => partly
litde => litle
Aristode => Aristotle
l80 GENOME => ???
SELF-ASSEMBLY I8I => ???
do2en => dozen

The writing itself is pretty good and I am enjoying it despite the horrible quality of the Kindle version.
1683886
Half the book (literally) is quotes. The rest, a bunch of touchy-feely, quite unmitigated flapdoodle. In my opinion, anyways. Considering how easily and cheaply quotation dictionaries can be had these days, I'd say,  go to the source <g>, and just get one.
1301251
English is a bit poor in places...maybe these are typos.
4284851
"I have said my peace"??? Really?  I know this is supposed to be a humorous book, but how did this one get past the editors?
1637646
Why do authors think they need their characters to use poor language, all the time to make there point.  Swearing is the attempt of a feeble mind to express its self. This makes the unformed shallow characters even more feeble minded.  Also, do we really need to have potty thoughts and high school images in connection with the feeble minded characters. To be up-front, I didn't finish the book, it seemed better to delete it sooner rather than later.
2218397
It is comforting to see the label on the back of the book for "Sustainable Forestry Initiative Program," what what it works to sustain is beyond me. Is it sustaining the high cost of textbooks with pages so glossy that their glare not only injures my sight but makes it near-impossible to write margin notes in pencil for the sake of "sustaining" the condition of the book? Is it sustaining rampant typos as glaring as the glossy pages? Is it sustaining absolutely random and unnecessary bright red headlines and tidbits about people whose history will not help me pass this class or a bar exam?

Who the hell thought this was a great idea? Was that individual NOT a law student? Did they never write margin notes in pencil? Did they never really just want the case to get to the fugging point? Did they never have the foresight to think that their awful choice in page consistency renders studying under any kind of light absolutely useless?

Please, if you are a professor, don't require this textbook. If you are a student subjected to the greedy whims of professors and authors alike, I am so very sorry you have to endure this... this... wretched item. It is an abomination of both substance and composition.
4251504
Trying to get through the typos and mistakes is so annoying. I can't understand why these self published authors can't shell out for a proofreader. Has anyone ever heard of the word "consciousnesses" as in "he lost consciousnesses"? How about the character Johnson telling his wife they'll go to Florida when they're already in Florida? Or how about the DOC guard wearing black "books" on his feet? Have only read 20% of the book so far and am not sure I can take much more of it.
3227751
The number of typos for a book at $22.95 ($29.95 on the cover) is just a shame and makes the reading frustrating (or maybe it's just me). Some examples, I'm pretty sure I missed some:
p. 194: "[...] one more grazed by thigh."
p. 196: "they drew back a fifty feet in all directions."
p. 207: "[Lord] Zon has more time that we do."

Some stylistic incongruities too (conjunction "but" not used properly, where an "and" would have been better suited, etc...)
1820535
This is new translation. I think a new translation is a terrible idea. Ill return it. The English language continues to get butchered- why would I want a new translation?!? There is magic in the composition of words - or should I say there Once was? A new translation is honoring changes in speech. Might as well delete the words all together and only have pictures.
892835
The wording is sometimes strange. It's awkwardly organized. I don't know if it helps or not because after reading a couple of chapters l got discouraged of writing and so quit reading it.