I have just read God, Speak, by Frank Buchan. There are lots of things that are good about the story, the premise and the plot are good, the characterisations are good - it could of been a really good book.
But - and there is a but, it is so poorly written that it drove me mad reading it. I t appears that it was not even spell checked let alone proof read. I lost count of the number of times there was a 1 instead of an I, and the number of times the wrong word was used in a sentence. In one sparagraph near the beginning there are 3 writing errors,
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He prodded a pair of buttons and the room dimmed. With an apologetic smile, he said, “I am afraid my eyes are light sensitive. I cannot see holograms when there is a background glare of natural light.”
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Infact the room did not dim, it became dimmer or the room lights dimmed. If his eyes were not sensitive to light they would not be eyes, it is a basic function of eyes to be sensitive to light, he meant to say he had an eyesight problem explained in the next sentence. Turning the room lights lower does not affect natural light, the room lights are artificial light he meant to say he could not see holograms when there was a high ambient light level.
Later in the book there is someone who stood, sitting on the edge of a desk balancing a notepad on her knee. I think I know what the author meant but at first reading it sounds like a deformed person. There are many more oddities throughout the book.
The book is available from Smashwords for free, which may be more than it is worth.