All The Things You Have To Burn

This book is incredibly frustrating. I get a lot of books offered free on Amazon and the like, and I've gotten really picky about them - and first and most easily, about the editing. It's usually a strong correlation between "the author didn't bother to edit the book well" and "the author didn't

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write well" - books with missing words, typos, "I do not think that word means what you think it does" usually also lack good characterization, well-done dialog, useful descriptions, often a reasonable plot. That doesn't describe this book. All the Things You Have to Burn is - well, it's fluff, but it's _good_ fluff, well-written and nicely presented. The world is fascinating, the characters are more than a quirk, the dialog is quite realistic. And the editing is _horrible_. I don't think there's a page without at least one error. It was like looking at a fascinating scene through a tangle of barbed wire - every time I got interested and settled in, some typo or sentence with doubled or missing words or nonsense word (in context) would throw me out of the story. And that said, I am perfectly willing to abandon a book that's bad...this one, I read all the way to the end (which isn't an ending, it's a setup for the next book). And I want to read the next book, too.
I see on Amazon that it says there's a new edition "Now professionally edited!" Hurray! A writer this good shouldn't be presenting a book with so many errors - it deserves to be properly readable.

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