Review of Opportunity Taken

[Nboerman]

[Following is a volunteer review of "Opportunity Taken" by R. W. Frazier.]

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3 out of 5 stars

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I reviewed “Opportunity Taken” by R. W. Frazier. I would give the book a 3 out of 5 or 2 out of 4 depending on the scale provided.

The author’s writing was easy to read, however I felt that some of the formatting was rough, there were some typos, and some roughness in the story line itself.

The author chose to use “justify” for their alignment and this cause me to have to come back and reread some chapters because the spacing slowed my reading. An example of this would be the last paragraph on page 10. There are some large spaces in some of the lines within the middle of a sentence.

Chapter 2 contains a lot of dialogue between 2 drug kingpins. This dialogue is very affectionate and feels a little warm for the characters represented. Frazier also uses this chapter to give the reader some background context through dialogue. This background information would be better delivered as an aside instead of conversationally, because much of it reads as though the two characters are reminding each other of what would have been core memories for them.
There are a few instances where the author switches back and forth between referring to a character by their first name and then their last name (this happens a few times on page 19 regarding Colt Crandall).

Several instances were present where names of characters were used in place of others. For example, on page 20 “Milt” is referenced when it should be “Brett”, page 48 “Sanderson Services” is written as “Sanders Services”, page 66 “Brett Wilson” is mentioned instead of “Brett Williams”. The author also uses “Compound” and “Cartel” as proper nouns in both contexts where they are and when the lower-case version would have been more appropriate.

The book moved along decently until the end of chapter 8, where the tone shift is so abrupt, I thought I missed something in the book. There really isn’t anything to give the reader an indication that one of the supporting characters has a secret so big that it comes out of nowhere and completely changes the story line. A chapter that reminisces about that character’s past and motivations to at least lay the groundwork for that shift would have been helpful.
I felt that the story line had the potential to be a good one, but I deducted stars for basic formatting and grammatical errors and rough story line.

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Opportunity Taken
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