James Elliot Leighton's Reviews > The Target

Yet another established writer fails. This is puerile rubbish, cliche riddled, clumsy, amateurish. If it was the first effort of a self published teen it still wouldn't be excusable or acceptable. The characters are unbelievable, the dialogue and responses ludicrous, the stuff of comics, not mature writers. The writer has his protagonists doing things not realistically possible in the first few pages. Disarming and pulling down the pants of experienced street thugs before any of them can react or respond? A President who can be manipulated by simple psychology? There is light rain falling on the river's edge, but the river is "storm tossed"?

This "novel" is not only drivel, it is drivel that has managed to reach publication without input from a competent editor. That is surprising. Perhaps in the age of eBooks and self publishing some writers feel that they can do it all.

I was wondering if perhaps this was a joke, if someone had substituted dross for the real novel, but sadly it seems not. I have no intention of finishing the book - it is not only poorly written, it is so bad that it is actually annoying.