Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I am a huge Lee Child / Jack Reacher fan. I have read all his books, multiple times. This novella was hugely disappointing, and here is why: (1) Only 71% of the purchased book is on topic. The remaining 29% is a shameless plug for Karin Slaughter's next novel. They should refund those 29%, if not more, read on. (2) It is not until 23% of the overall book (including the plug) that Reacher enters the picture. That's 23/71 = 32%, so a third roughly into the book, before he actually appears at all in the book. But it gets worse. (3) Reacher alone is in 8% of the actual book. That is 0.08*0.71=5.7% of the entire book pages. (4) Reacher and Will together are portrayed 32% of the actual book, so 0.32*0.71=23% of the entire book. (5) This, in all, of your entire purchase, Reacher is portrayed in roughly 29% of the book. The rest (71%) is all Karen Slaughter and her characters in the book you already purchased plus a plug for her next novel. (6) You would expect in a book of this type that some is principally one character, some the other, but mainly both. Well, that is absolutely not so on this instance. This strongly comes across as Child helping Slaughter through the use of his name and his protagonist's name. That is not cool. (7) There are multiple grammatical errors. You would think authors of this caliber would have competent editors. I once brought up the who vs. whom problems found in Nelson DeMille's books to the author himself. He explained them away as 'colloquial speech'. That is a lame excuse. Get it right, without exception. There is no excuse really, so man up; you can afford it. This book even has a run-on sentence, and there is absolutely no excuse for that. Finally, the book is a decent read, with a very anticlimactic ending. Note I wrote this all on a cell phone, upset about the percentages and other content issues. So if I misspelled or otherwise made grammatical errors, I at least have a valid excuse. Unlike these authors I neither have editors on staff, nor do I need any. My thumbs are often just to big for my keyboard. Best regards, Alex B., PhD