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Title: Against the Wind (Indigo)
ISBN: 1585712132
Author:
Gwynne Forster
Publicate Date: 2006-10-01
Publish: 2006-10-01
List Price: $6.99
Average Customer Rating: 3.0
Format: Paperback
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1: Nice story.. poor editorial work!
It's a good story and deals really well with issues of patience, love and of course interracial relationships. Although much has changed in this arena some things remain the same. As an avid reader, I was really quite disappointed with the sheer number of errors in this book starting from page one. It made reading the novel a turn off sometimes. You had to read over some parts. PLEASE EDIT FURTHER PRINTS! How could the author and publisher have allowed this to go out into the market? Please, I would love to edit it so email me if you need help... its not a problem.
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2: I want my money back!
I am so disappointed with the publisher for allowing this book to be released as is. Where was the editor??? How could Forster allow herself to be humilated by this work?! If there was any integrity with the author or publisher they would pull this book from the market and re-do it! I have learned a hard lesson, and thats to READ THE REVIEWS before purchasing a book. For anyone who is on the fence about buying this book, let me be the one to push you over to the side of common sense. SAVE YOUR MONEY.
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3: Typos ruined it for me.
From what I can tell, this story was written about ten years ago, so I can forgive some of the portrayed attitudes about an interracial couple; but combined with all the glaring typos: missing chunks of text, garbled sentences, sometimes duplicate lines of text, and worst of all, misplaced pronouns ('him' when it should have been 'her'). I was pretty fed up by the end of the book. It was a nice enough story, but I wouldn't recommend this book.
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4: What a disappointment
I have to say that this is one of the worst books that I have ever read. First for all of those who wrote that they loved the book and gave it 5 stars......WTF? For those that have not read the book please don't, and here are my reasons.
1. The main character Leslie is immature and erratic and the author idolizes her as if she is virginal do-gooder the world has done wrong. The author also portrays her as being very na??ve in the way of men but highly educated and focused on bettering herself. One of my biggest problems with Leslie was that she had way too many hang ups and insercurties. For the author to portray her as this great strong heroine was pathetic.
2. Jordan was just a baffling as Leslie. The author made him out to be a quasi alpha male that was conflicted with he lustful desire for Leslie and his over protective personality. What I personally disliked about him was that he was really old-fashioned (i.e. he drove a town car) but he was also bi-polar.
3. Overall this book was horrible and I can't believe that I read the whole thing. The grammar is bad with its down home country dialogue and the puns are even worse. (I am from MD and we are not that country!). I have to agree with everyone, the editor must have been blind because there is no way a person with any intelligence could not see them. Lastly the plot was a great idea but developed poorly like all of her characters and it was hard to follow. I know this is fiction but a determined educated black woman being stalked by her old white boss that worked at her bank that now tosses pebbles at her window at night and she does nothing because she is scared (Is this Realistic!) I have so many problems with this book that I could go in for days but I have one question for everyone that has read the book. What black women would voluntarily live at the YMCA?
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5: BOOOOOOooooooooooo!!
What a waste of my money. I thought this book was going to be good from the reviews, but I was let down in a big way. First, did anyone proof this book at all. I was so confused that I thought I was losing my sight. Thank God I wasn't. I was just reading a book full of errors. Second, the story was not believable in any way. The whole crock of Leslie being stalked by the Faron guy made me cringe, because it didn't make much sense. I want to kill you by throwing pebbles at your window? I don't think so Gwynne.
Here's a suggestion. Fans of interracial romance read:
Sandra Kitt
Marilyn Lee
Seressia Glass
Eve Vaughn
Octavia Butler
Kim McLarin
Lisa G. Riley
JJ Murray
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