Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Downloaded the sample (the first 3 chapters) because of the overall level of the reviews and the fact that it's set in the Pacific NW. Nothing against the northeast and the south; those places may have more history and skeletons in the closets, but I've read enough novels set in those places lately. Nice to see something set close to home. But ... ugh. After reading the sample I don't think I'll be able to tolerate all the grammatical errors, especially after reading other reviews from people who've made it halfway through the book and then put it down for the same reason. "The Tucker's part of the road" ... "a nervous tick" ... "Mariner's cap" ... "don't care one wit". All this in the first few pages of a book featuring a major character who is an English teacher (and in chapter 1 makes a show of correcting the protagonist's grammar), no less! There's also a significant (to us Northwesterners) factual error at the beginning of chapter 3, completely misplacing the zone of sparse radio reception between Puget Sound and Portland. I don't know; maybe if the Kindle Edition were a buck, like so many other lightly edited self-published novels on Amazon, I'd go for it. All the settings in the sample are familiar to me, and so far I'm intrigued enough by the characters and the story to read more. But the number of errors in the sample alone is about as bad as I've seen, even among the $0.99 thrillers, to the point that I consider the book to still be in draft form. Honestly, Ms. Hardwick, I hope you will pay a struggling English-major friend for a few hours of their time to catch the glitches. Your book would be worth a lot more. Personally, I'm not inclined to pay $3.99 unless it's cleaned up.