The Guardian (O'Malley Series, Book 2)

The characters and the plot both deserve five stars, as usual. (Though the synopsis is a bit inaccurate.)

HOWEVER, this is the absolute lowest I can handle on terms of being able to read and enjoy despite bad story mechanics. It makes me wonder if the editor was on holiday during the publishing, and it somehow went out without proofreading. There were errors on nearly every page–mostly by blatant misuse of commas and semicolons, which were often swapped for each other at random–and also with irritating oopses like changing verb tense in the middle of a sentence, adverbs lacking their “ly”, and the dreadful “where...at?” Sentences of lyrical brilliance were paired in the same paragraph as short, choppy ones or long run-ons and comma splices. I honestly felt like taking out a red pen and sending a copy back to the publisher.