mark t.

The Awakening of Adam Capello

Like most writers with their first book, I was eager to gain a professional review, so I spent £270 with some trepidation. After 6ish weeks I received the review promptly but was rather dissapointed. Not so much by what they said, but by what they left out. It seemed quite apparent that the reviewer had not read my whole book as he left a fundamental element out, that being the recuring image of a skull in his past lives. As you go through the book, they become more and more important and lead to an important twist at the end.
I complained and they were very good at replying and investigating, but eventually said that due to a 'hard word count' they could not include everything so would leave certain details out! In this case, it is like leaving out Asimov's "Three Laws of Robotics' out of 'I Robot'... it doesn't work?
So if they did not read the whole book, how can they review it properly?
I had to really push for a definative answer to whether the reviewer read the whole book and he finally, reluctantly, said they had. I am not convinced, but how can I prove otherwise. A waste of money in my opinion.