Finished: Kirov III: Pacific Storm by John Schettler
The final in the original Kirov trilogy. Once again a great story that just keeps you wanting to read another page to find out if the men can keep themselves alive with rapidly dwindling resources. BUT for someone who has been writing since 1980 and also has a degree in English with a writing major, there were some shocking errors in this book. I would have to guess that the editor was MIA on this job. There were a couple of instances where characters names changed in spelling. But the biggest annoyance for me was the fact that this is an author who says at the beginning of this book "every other ship and character mentioned, from the highest officers etc etc is a historical figure". Well news flash Mr Schlettler, the wartime Prime Minister of Australia was not John CURTAIN but in fact John CURTIN. Given that you on one occasion spelt the name correctly leads me to believe that perhaps editing extended to spell check only - where even my spell check wants to correct Curtin to Curtain (which would go along way to explaining some of the hideous errors in this book). This book was a serious let down after the extremely high quality of the first two books in the series.
Started: Fire in the Ashes by William W Johnstone
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