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She's Not Coming Home (2000)

by Philip Cox(Favorite Author)

3.59 of 5 Votes: 5

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review 1: How disappointed am I ?? This sounded SO GOOD but I've ended up packing it in at 23% due to some dire mistakes in it. Why oh why do authors not check what's being put out there in their name ?? I did see some other reviews complaining about mistakes in it but I'd already downloaded it by then. Amazon haven't updated my copy since March 2013 when I got it and if they're at fault then the author should be giving someone a good kick up the backside.I spotted a needless apostrophe, too replaced by two (horrors), timed and not time, words dropped from sentences like the, eight floor and not eighth, then lost speechmarks, a used and not an. This sentence was almost the end for me-"As he got to six feet away, the man happened got up"....but then I took my hand off the delete butt... moreon till I saw Danny on the next page saying "You assumed I was Rurh Gibbons". Really ?? At one point we're told the night duty police come on at 7pm but then at 8.40pm the original ones were still working and weren't relieved.There were a lot of traffic directions in it which really seemed to drag on and were superflous to the story. Fine if you know the area but even then they're really not needed.Yet I thought the story was fascinating till then and I did want to persevere as now I'll never know what happened to Ruth but all the mistakes ruined it for me. A real shame.I have 2 more recent ones by the author downloaded so I'm hoping they might have been properly proofread. I've selected them at varying times so his stories clearly appeal to me. What a shame.
review 2: The storyline was OK, but the ending was a bit rubbish to be honest. It seemed that the (long and drawn out) story went on forever but then the ending was condensed into nothing.There were typos. One example was "sure" it was typed as "surely" and that really irritated me. There were mistakes where sentences didn't make sense and then I'm sure the author is English but basing a book in America? He referred to the boys Mother as Mummy and Mommy a number of times. The book was full of little things like this, if it was a couple of times through out the book then fair enough, but it was a few times every couple of pages. less

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