Book: In Hero Years... I'm Dead

[amanda_lodden]

The story itself is engaging and likable. It's worth a solid 4 stars, 4.5 if Amazon let us do 1/2 stars. I'm particularly fond of the way that Vixen's daddy issues are handled, because so very many absentee-parent stories ignore the confusing mix of emotions in favor of a black-and-white option

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[allanh]

The ebooks I'm currently buying from established authors (for example, the Recluce Saga from L.E. Modesitt) through Amazon are riddled with copyediting errors. I am doubly annoyed because all of the Modesitt books I've bought are at least TEN YEARS old, meaning that his publisher has had plenty of time to find and correct errata before shoving the latest edition of the book into ebook format.

Diane Duane went the opposite direction. Her "Young Wizards" series ebooks on Amazon are astonishingly full of errors. A few years ago, she decided to re-edit the series, updating technology references and correcting some internal timeline inconsistencies, and self-publishing the resulting "Millennium Edition" volumes. Each of the newly self-published volumes contain no more than a couple of errors, and at least one was without errors that I can remember.

When I go back to my deadtree editions of SF&F books from the 70's, 80's, and 90's, while I do find an occasional obvious copyediting error, it's nothing like the volume I'm seeing from new books published over the past five or six years.

Not counting, of course, continuity and name errors such as you describe above. I'm beginning to think that nobody EDITS anything any more.