Stupid editing can ruin a book.

I've been waiting to read a book for awhile know. I'm not going to say which book as I don't want to ruin it for anyone. Or get sued. We'll just say it's one of the paranormal/urban fantasy types I read a lot of.

It's the second book in a series. The first one was good, not terribly innovative, not terribly creative, but the characters were interesting and it kept the pace moving nicely. I've been happily expecting the sequel. I checked it out a few days ago, but I'm about forty pages in and I'm not going to finish.

Sometimes bad editing is enough to pull you out of a story and leave you staring and wondering "What the hell?"

When someone rights something like this:

"If Adam uses the ambrosia stone to rewrite history, everything we know will end!" Then two pages later, another character notes, word for word, that "if Adam uses the ambrosia stone to rewrite history, everything we know will end," you tend to think... Didn't I just read that somewhere? And I'm not talking paraphrasing or summarizing, I'm talking about identical, self-plagiarizing, copy and paste, hack jobs.

I just can't read anymore. I'm sorry. I can't. I won't. It's too horrible to go on.