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A review by claire_fuller_writer
Before the Fall by Noah Hawley
4.0
3.5 stars for the book because I wanted to find out what happened, but 0 stars for the copyediting. A very readable book, that kept me wanting to know what happened, although because of the structure - just a chapter on each person involved in a plane crash, by the time I found out what happened, I wasn't too bothered because I didn't feel I knew the characters very well. The writing was good in a thriller-y way.
But I was shocked at the poor copyediting, which did put me off the whole thing. Even on the last page Scott (the protagonist) 'gets up' from his chair, and then a few lines further on he 'gets up' again. On the penultimate page of the prologue the word 'flush' is used 4 times. Magnus lives in an old shoe factory in one chapter, and a condemned paint warehouse in another. And on and on...
But I was shocked at the poor copyediting, which did put me off the whole thing. Even on the last page Scott (the protagonist) 'gets up' from his chair, and then a few lines further on he 'gets up' again. On the penultimate page of the prologue the word 'flush' is used 4 times. Magnus lives in an old shoe factory in one chapter, and a condemned paint warehouse in another. And on and on...