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Originally Posted by ardeegee
I think that your problem is more people read the succinct 1-star review and skipped over a possibly even more brutally honest 4 star one:
This is a decent enough effort... Not great literature... My main beef is with editing. Even a quick pass by a competent professional editor would clean up a mildly depressing tendency toward structural wordiness... and inconsistent grammar... unpolished and not particularly writerly. It annoys me enough to detract from the flow of the narrative, but it isn't bad enough to make me scream.... I want to encourage the author to go the extra step for your readers and put a good copyeditor to work before you bring out the rest of the series....
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Yeah... if both the 4-star review and the 1-star review are harping on grammar and the need for an editor, I'm going to avoid that book like the plague.
You should have it professionally edited and release a new version. Perhaps after it's released, respond to the reviews out there now and say "I've released a newly edited version of this book" or some such. Amazon notifies purchasers when the book has been updated, but you'll want everyone who reads the reviews to know you've made an effort to clean it up.