Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

This is a gorgeous looking cookbook. I love Mexican food and neon colors, so I thought this cookbook and I were meant to be. However, after reading through multiple recipes, I'm torn on whether I will actually keep the book. Full disclosure: I have yet to cook any recipe from the book. Yes, you can think that invalidates my review. Hear me out though, I am writing this review to alert people to the style and editing issues. As mentioned in another review, there is no intro for recipes. It is the list of ingredients, region, prep/cook time, serving size, and directions. I understood this before purchasing, but I do wish there was at least a couple sentences introducing the recipe. That would greatly add to each recipe and the overall book. Absolutely my main issue with the book is the editing/organization. I cannot begin to comprehend the poor editing and how this made it to publication with all the issues (not just 1 or 2...). For example: pages 550 and 611 are the SAME recipe (Corn cake with eggnog sauce). Except the recipe on page 611 is only titled Corn cake, but in the directions it tells you to make the eggnog sauce. Too bad it doesn't even list the ingredients for the sauce, so you have to turn back to page 550, which is actually the correctly edited version of the cake. The Veracruz-style fish recipe on page 253 lists the ingredients and directions to make a spice infusion. However, it never tells you when to use it. Do you use it in the sauce or to marinate the fish? If so, when and how much? Under the "To serve:" ingredients olives are listed twice (1/2 cup olives vs. 12 pitted green olives, sliced). What does that mean? Do you need two separate types of olives. If so, is the first olive listed a black olive? In addition, it annoys me when the accompanying photo doesn't match the recipe; the recipe says to use red snapper fillets, yet the photo is a whole red snapper. I mean seriously come on now... That is just two examples of numerous editing mistakes I've seen: ingredients missing yet called for in directions, different ingredients in directions than listed in the ingredients list, missing directions altogether, etc. Also the organization is just weird. Why list two separate "Day of the Dead" bread recipes with 4 recipes between them. You should list them with one right after the other. That way a reader can easily compare and contrast the difference between the two recipes. So overall like I said, I don't know if I'll keep the cookbook. I am a very experienced cook but not with Mexican cuisine. Hence me buying the book. If you are very experienced with Mexican cuisine then this could still be a great cookbook for you. Overall the recipes look and sound fantastic. Part of me wants to just keep the book and fix the mistakes as I make the cook my way through it. It's just so frustrating to spend nearly $30 on a cookbook for it to be so poorly edited and put together. Either information needs to be published online addressing all the errors or a second (fixed) edition should be published.