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To: ventanax5

I read the book last month, and sent the author a long list of "howlers" and bad editing mistakes in it that, taken as a whole, made it impossible for me to suspend disbelief and get into the plot of his book.

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8 posted on 02/27/2007 8:49:36 AM PST by eddiespaghetti ( with the meatball eyes)
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To: eddiespaghetti
I just finished reading one of his earlier books, The Romanov Prophesy a few days ago, and it was one of the most disappointing books I'd ever read. It had a wonderful general plot; the Russian people vote for a restoration of the Romanov monarchy. But the multiple editing mistakes, coupled with the complete fiasco of the timeline made it extremely hard to enjoy.

One of the key problems was that a main subplot revolved around the hatred of the communists felt by a young woman (described as in her mid-20's) because her grandmother was sent to a gulag when the girl was a teenager, despite the fact that the story supposedly took place around 2006 and that the girl's boyfriend at the time her grandmother "disappeared" was killed in action in Chechnya just a few months later.

17 posted on 02/27/2007 10:09:24 PM PST by Stonewall Jackson (Captain, I must protest! I am not a merry man! - Lt. Worf)
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