Rebeca Schiller

Sounds a little like the undead, doesn’t it? Late January I received an email from an author’s assistant asking if I was interested to review her boss’s book; the first thing I looked at was who published it and what were the initial reviews. I’ve been very picky about certain publishers, but when I saw it had been reviewed by Publishers Weekly I figured the publisher was an indie, so I emailed back and said to send it.

I won’t write about the specifics of the story, but I will address the writing. It’s terrible. The grammar is a mess and the research is sloppy.  I was dismayed the reviewer from Publishers Weekly liked the book, but didn’t comment at all about the writing.  So I did a little research on the publisher (which I should have done right from the start, shame on me).  When I