Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

"Robyn and Grant Richards' happily ever after was short lived. He is captured and held prisoner in Lebanon and her government-coerced testimony against a crime network whisked her into Witness Protection as Brooke Johnson. Five years later a critical accident involving Brooke's daughter forces her hand. She reveals Grant's location to the doctors. Never believing he'd deliver Kari's rare blood type in person, her powers of acting indifferent are sorely tested when she comes face-to-face with the only man she's ever loved. Grant could swear his dead wife stood in the hospital waiting room - until she turned around and only her hair reminded him of Robyn. Yet there was something about her and her precious daughter that had him flying in to see them more often than necessary. Despite Brooke telling him she didn't want a relationship, he refused to take no for an answer. Being with Grant endangered them all. The crime network may have gone underground, but they would never stop looking for Robyn or anyone she loved." It's an intriguing premise. After all, what couple who meet in Vegas and marry after knowing each other less than 12 hours have a chance at wedded bliss? Apparently though Our Hero and Heroine beat those odds and love each other dearly. But due to various complications of serving the country, they are separated and Our Heroine ends up in Witness Protection without Our Hero. Could have been a great read. But it isn't. It's at this point the story becomes implausible for me. She loves him so much that she decides without ever talking to him about it that she will let him think she died rather than ask him to give up flying. Because he just loves to fly that much. Oh, and by the way, she is pregnant. She doesn't tell him. Oh, and by the way, he also happens to be doing some sort of spy work for the US government even though he is a civilian. How plausible is that? The other thing that is implausible is that they meet and although her face has been surgically altered, there are so many drop dead giveaways that she is the same woman, Our Hero has to be brain dead not to figure it out sooner. There is also a subplot with Jacob and Marianne and Jacob and Cynthia, only Cynthia is dead, but that is not made clear until about two-thirds through the story. Actually, I thought Cynthia was Jacob's wife and he was cheating on her with Marianne while being in love with Our Heroine. It just didn't make any sense. Another thing that was just dreadful about this story was the editing. Letters were missing from words. "Is" instead of "his," for example. Or the wrong word appears in a sentence. "Bushed" instead of "pushed." There were several such errors and every single one of them jolted me out of the story. It's as if someone relied solely on a spell checker instead of employing an actual human to read and look for errors. But the real kicker is that the author offered this book for 99 cents as a bribe. Yep. A bribe. To avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest, I am posting my review well after the deadline. But here is an exact quote of the bribe, including even more editorial errors, asking for purchases and good reviews: "In order for my books to become an official “Bestseller” on the Amazon Kindle platform...I need to have real customers with real sales and real reviews posted on the Amazon website. What's surprising is that it doesn't take a million orders to become a best seller. By my estimation, if just 50 people buy my Kindle book (at just .99 cents this week), it will probably top the list of action adventure (sic) books. Will you help me? "I'm putting Under the Sheets, a romantic suspense, on sale for only $.99. Do you already have a Kindle Fire? Not to worry. The holidays are coming. Use yours as a Christmas, Hankukah (sic), or Kwanzaa present, or keep the new one and re-gift your older model. For only $.99, you get the opportunity to win a new e-reader valued at $229.00. "What's a better way to motivate you to help me than create an "ethical bribe" so you and a few other readers will buy my Kindle e-book for just $.99, then write a nice review? (Really, it's less than a dollar.) And, if you like it, please rate it 5 stars! "I don't know if only two people will do this favor for me or 100 people, but the odds of you winning the Kindle Fire HDX are better than winning the lottery. Probably about 1 out of 30...that's great odds. "This Friday, I'm going to take all the testimonials directly from the Amazon Under the Sheets book page. I'm going to put them in a jar and randomly pull out the winner of the new Kindle Fire HDX. "Then I'm going to have the brand new Kindle Fire HDX shipped to your home, no matter what country you live in...just for buying a $1 book and writing a nice review. You could get a $229.00 return on your investment. How can you pass this offer up? You can't. "Oh, remember if you don't win, you still get to download and read a really great book that you probably want to own anyway. And, after this promotion, the price goes back to retail ($4.99). "I understand I’m being greedy by asking you to send an entire dollar. You could just write a review on Amazon, even if you don't own the book. But there's logic behind my request... "Book buyers are given more credibility than non-buyers. If you write a review on a book that you don't own, Amazon doesn't think it's very credible. But if you actually buy it with you Amazon account, they think it's highly credible and place your review higher on the page. This helps new people discover and believe Under the Sheets is a great read. "So if you are willing to help get the newly revised Kindle version of Under the Sheets to bestsellerdom...click on the book cover to go to Amazon.com. "Please buy it and post your review before midnight Thursday, September 18, 2014, so I can enter you into the drawing."