#417 - Forget Me Not

Forget Me Not by Melissa Lynne Blue

My rating: 2 of 5 stars







Three positive things about this book: it had a sweet ending, some portions were nicely written and a lovely cover.

Apart from that I'm afraid that the punctuation towards the beginning was terrible; in the main it lacked focus and drive and the standard of English was poor, with lots of errors and bug bears.

A disappointing 2 stars from me; definitely a book I will forget.



Product Details:

I am ashamed to say this was a DSOA featured book last April, picked mainly because of the lovely cover.  

It is available HERE at a listed Kindle price of 77p.  Is it worth the money, I would say not.

326 pages
Fiction, Historical, Romance
Indie Writer (Self-published)
No overt sexual content



Errors/Bug Bears:

Loc 24:   ... she always managed to spill on it - a sentence such as this holds up my point nicely I believe.

Loc 305: She would write her grandmother every day - ditto

Loc 347:  ... he'd thought to secure permission to writer her - ditto

Loc 750:  ... I just cannot seem to wrap my head around any of what's happened to us - I like my "historical" fiction to be authentic, that is not!

Loc 442: He scowled.  ignored him - despite re-setting my Kindle countless times this seems to be a formatting error.

Loc 1850: - The bungalow was cozy - bungalow is an Indian word at the time of the British Raj I believe; not appropriate in this context.

Loc 2114:  It feels as though an entire caravan ran over me - I would question the use of "caravan".

Loc 2131:  ... pistol from his pants - pants is not an historically correct term, if you are going to write in this genre do the research.

Loc 4093:  Go await the magistrate or something useful - by now it will be perfectly clear about much I abhor this kind of sentence structure.

Loc 4285:  go wait on the balcony - ditto

Loc 4377:  ... your feet feel like ice sickles - I would argue it should be icicles, but it may be a difference between Standard English and North American English.

Loc 4702:  ... murder you and leave your body on the moors for the wolves - the sentence should have a comma inserted, and also "wolves" is historically incorrect:  research, or lack of it, lets this piece of work down yet again.

Loc 4857:  A consortium of multicoloured pedals kissed the glow of her skin - multi-coloured and it should be "petals" (actually pedals used instead of petals is common with North American written English for some reason, it could be a pronunciation error that leads to it.

Loc 5217:  ... finally convinced her to rest a spell - such an unattractive choice of wording.


Happy reading.

Hugs

Kay

My Daily Selection for Free Kindle Download at Amazon

Forget Me Not ~ Melissa Lynne Blue *NEW AUTHOR

Kindle Store > Books > Fiction > Historical > Romance

I decided to go for another Historical Romance ... the cover drew me, and then I found out that the heroine was called Lydia .... so I had to have this one.  Random choices keep a bit of interest in the relationship with reading don't you think! 

So far it hasn't had any reviews, but I think it's only been uploaded recently (I cold be wrong in that assumption though).  You can find it quickly over at Amazon by clicking the large title just above the cover photograph, or click HERE,  As always, please bear in mind that I have no guarantee how long they will stay available for free download, so if you are reading this post retrospectively, you may well have to pay for it - I will review it as soon as possible and report back on it's merits.

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Hugs

Kay