“Sundog Comanche: Captain Creek, his Younger Years” Book 1 of the Sundog series by Ash Lingam, 2017 This book is about the youth of Ridge Creek (yes, that's his name) as he joins the Texas Rangers in the mid-Nineteenth Century. Loving historical novels as I do, I was looking forward to this. Unfortunately, the book was a pain to get through, being rife with grammatical and spelling errors. Here's a quote from the first chapter: “Frank pulled the wagon up, pushed forward on the wooden wheel break and as we both jumped down off of the buckboard wagon, our boots making clouds of reddish dust from the dry arid land.” Obviously, “break” should be spelled “brake” and there needs to be a comma a
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