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Yay, books! (with a caveat)
Sep. 17th, 2009 09:44 pmI was really happy to pre-order a copy of The Rookie, when I saw that it had finally come available. I'm a big fan of Sigler's work, and while I didn't expect to enjoy a fusion of American football and science fiction, The Rookie was a great free audiobook, with an excellent story. I was happy to finally get a chance to buy a print version of the book, and throw the author some well-earned green.
The book is really handsomely packaged, with extra text that wasn't in the audiobook, and a full-color insert mockup of a football magazine from the Galactic Football League.
That said, the book really could have used another proof-read or two. I caught a few grammar and spelling errors that really took me out of the story. (For example- A person who is a citizen of one country that relocates to another country is an expatriate. The author spelled it "ex-patriot," which describes Teddy Bruschi.)
It's definitely not my place to send a grammar-gram to the author or anything, but I hope these things get fixed if the book has a second printing.
(To be fair, Sigler's Infected and his NYT bestseller Contagious were done by a different publisher, and don't have the same problems. They may have had to rush The Rookie to print to meet a deadline or something. *shrug*)
The book is really handsomely packaged, with extra text that wasn't in the audiobook, and a full-color insert mockup of a football magazine from the Galactic Football League.
That said, the book really could have used another proof-read or two. I caught a few grammar and spelling errors that really took me out of the story. (For example- A person who is a citizen of one country that relocates to another country is an expatriate. The author spelled it "ex-patriot," which describes Teddy Bruschi.)
It's definitely not my place to send a grammar-gram to the author or anything, but I hope these things get fixed if the book has a second printing.
(To be fair, Sigler's Infected and his NYT bestseller Contagious were done by a different publisher, and don't have the same problems. They may have had to rush The Rookie to print to meet a deadline or something. *shrug*)