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A review by phoenix53
The Mismatch of the Season by Michelle Kenney
lighthearted
3.75
This sweet Regency romance has some good points. It's written with commitment and verve, and the story moves along at pace from one set piece to the next.
However. It reads like a promising and enthusiastic draft, not a finished novel. From the start, I assumed it was self-edited and self-published, from the repetitive writing style, the anachronisms, and the sheer number of language errors ('forget-me-knot', etc). Wrong! I saw in the acknowledgements that it was from a Big Five publisher and that an entire team was responsible for its publication. How can professional editors have missed so many problems?
However. It reads like a promising and enthusiastic draft, not a finished novel. From the start, I assumed it was self-edited and self-published, from the repetitive writing style, the anachronisms, and the sheer number of language errors ('forget-me-knot', etc). Wrong! I saw in the acknowledgements that it was from a Big Five publisher and that an entire team was responsible for its publication. How can professional editors have missed so many problems?