Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I probably shouldn't be assigning a star to a book that I couldn't read past the first chapter, but I will anyway. The editing, or more aptly the lack thereof, was so execrable that within the first three pages of the first chapter, I saw "veil" used where the appropriate word should have been "vale," "course" for "coarse," and "canon" for "cannon." At which point I gave up. Who knows, I might have deprived myself of an otherwise pleasant book, but if the author, editor, and/or proofreader couldn't exert the effort to identify and correct glaring errors in the opening pages of the book, I couldn't exert the effort to read past the first chapter.