Aladdin Relighted [NOOK Book]

Good intro to what I think is heading to a series

I hope I not giving away what I thought was obvious content in the book, so if you are concerned about knowing too much, stop reading here.

I loved Piers Anthony's "Xanth" series when I was younger, and I greatly enjoy J.R. Rain's books. However, I have to admit, this one fell a bit short for me. The reasons, however, are not because of the lack of content, but too much unnecessary content. I felt the story was strong and enjoyable and the characters very likeable, and the splatter of humor here and there a nice comic relief. The parts that somewhat deterred me from total enjoyment were the constant and sometimes misplaced sexual references and innuendos. It killed any romance aspect for me because there really was no "foreplay," for lack of a better term, in the relationship between the characters. We understood early on the main character's issues and the continuing references were a bit overused. Also, the female character's electric sexuality and her use of her wiles after suffering a great deal at the hands of men I thought were a bit misguided from a male perspective in relation to a woman's true feelings from suffering such a victimization and then using the same so freely to get what she needs.

I could definitely see both writers' form in this book and I do look forward to the next book. For a first collaboration I enjoyed the read and thought for the length it had a great deal of action and storyline.

Lastly, and I make this reference because it is a HUGE pet peeve of mine, whoever did the editing needs to go back to editing school. There were huge, obvious editorial mistakes, and in one part two dragons are battling and the "black" dragon is chasing itself...in fact it should have been called the "red" dragon, which was actually chasing the "black" dragon. I counted about 6 blatant editorial errors before the first half of the book and then started highlighting them on my Nook after that. This is very common in many books lately, and I believe publishers, or whoever is in charge of hiring editors, need to hire some competent individuals. It is not author specific by any means, and I never noticed such bad editing until the last ten years or so. I am not English major by any stretch, but if I can pick out the errors, someone on their end is dropping the ball.

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Great intro to what I think is one of the coolest series on the

Great intro to what I think is one of the coolest series on the market.

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