Official Review: Dangerous Journey by Clark Selby

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Re: Official Review: Dangerous Journey by Clark Selby

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Oh man, military thrillers are my most favorite books. Pity that the book didn't do the genre justice, however. Great review!
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Thanks again kislany. I think some changes can be made. Then this would be a totally different story.
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Great review,i really like books on aventure and action.I hope that i will appreciate this one.
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Oh, dear...it sounds like this book has a bunch of issues. Grammatical errors are a distracting annoyance and too many would make me feel like I am reading a draft rather than a published work. The repetition is also a big problem. You gave lots of constructive criticism and I hope the author is able to use your comments to improve future works.
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bookowlie wrote: 14 Dec 2017, 21:31 Oh, dear...it sounds like this book has a bunch of issues. Grammatical errors are a distracting annoyance and too many would make me feel like I am reading a draft rather than a published work. The repetition is also a big problem. You gave lots of constructive criticism and I hope the author is able to use your comments to improve future works.
There are some books you read that you think, "Man, this book is so horrible. There is no salvaging it." This wasn't one of those. It had a lot of errors, but it's all fixable. I think it could be a good story with some work. Thanks for commenting!
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Wow great story sadly too much mistakes. Hope I can overcome that. Thank you for the heads up!
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The theme seems great and the plot interesting. I hope the author does all the necessary corrections soon. Every book deserves to be read because a lot has been put into it. Thanks for the review.
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Thanks Sahani. If you read it, I hope you enjoy it.

Rosemary- You are right. Authors put a lot into their works, so they deserve to be read. Sometimes some books just need a little more work to make it into a truly good finished product.
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I always feel like people who trudge through books that are making them angrier and angrier deserve a reward! I feel the same as you--careful proofreading and editing can make or break a book! I hope this author is able to get some professional editing assistance. It sounds like the story has potential. Thanks for the thoughtful review!
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Thanks for commenting amybo! Proofreading certainly goes a long way.
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Thanks for this review. From your opinion, it is clear that there is a lot of work that needs to be done on the book for it to get good rating.
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You are right there. Editors and proofreaders are a very important part of the process. One that shouldn't be skipped.
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I started reading this book but I couldn't finish it because I did not find it so captivating to my needs as a reader. I think I need to improve my perceptions as a young reader.
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Well, everyone has their own tastes Paul. That's not necessarily something that you need to change. Lots of people disagree!
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Post by JuliaKay »

Thanks for sharing your review. From the title and the book cover, I expected the book summary to be something different from what you described. It is an interesting plot-nuclear scientists and Al-Qaeda. It's a shame that it wasn't properly edited for errors , but hopefully the reviews help. It also seems like a big topic for such a short book. From the summary, it seems like it could span over a couple few hundred page books. :(
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