Frostborn: The Iron Tower

Good story poor grammar

This series of books is fun, exciting, has interesting characters, all written by someone with quite an imagination. However - when did authors quit having their books edited? This series gets worse with each book with mistakes that make reading very irritating. At times the mistakes make it totally unable to understand. What really disturbs my peace of mind while trying to really get into the story is that rules of grammar state that a quote when someone asks a question should follow with the person asked. I cannot recall one time when anyone in these stories asks a question(?). They all just say (“said”) things. They never exclaim (!). Of course writers at times use said instead of asked or questioned after a question mark. However it really takes away from the representation of a person’s part of a conversation. Besides it totally takes my mind off of what I’m reading because I have to pause and think about the meaning of what was supposed to have been spoken. Yes it only takes a second to think it through but why should we have to do that. This writer seems too smart to not be able to do this correctly or get an editor to fix that problem and the sentences that make no sense. I’m thinking maybe it is a computer program being used that automatically types - said so an so - after a quotation mark. In spite of those annoyances, I am still reading the books in this series. By the way, before you rag on me for my review think about this - I am not a writer. I am an avid reader. I mean no offense. I just want to make reading better, easier and maybe even a proper learning experience when written with proper grammar.