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Title: Unbelievably sloppy editing
Review: I enjoyed Dietz' story, although there were a few too many miracle escapes in the plot for my taste.However, I have never read any novel, anywhere, that had even one quarter of the grammar errors and wrong word choices that this one had. I'm sure many authors make such errors, but ordinarily they are caught in editing. Not this time, they weren't. Dietz is in love with sentence fragments. One or two of those might be artistically meaningful, but there are closer to a hundred of them in the book. Twice he uses the word "perspective" when he means "prospective". I don't have it in front of me (I took it back to the library, grateful that I didn't pay for it!) or I would list some of the other problems. Potholes on an otherwise smooth road. (There, look, a sentence fragment!)
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