Making of Tomb Raider

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Daryl Baxter: Making of Tomb Raider (2021, Pen & Sword Books Limited)

English language

Published Aug. 15, 2021 by Pen & Sword Books Limited.

ISBN:
978-1-3990-0205-9
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2 stars (1 review)

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2 stars

I was pretty excited for this book and really wanted to like it. There was a lot of positive promotion for it going on within the Tomb Raider community that raised my expectations and increased my enthusiasm for it. Though, I am also aware it's Daryl Baxter's very first book.

Even though I liked the content of the book a fair bit, I cannot give it a better rating because the editing is absolutely horrendous. Since most of the book is made up of interviews with different people most of the work would have been the editing process. I don't know who chose to ship it like this, but considering how expensive the book is it's just terrible.

There are countless typos, many repititions where entire paragraphs are copy-pasted, mentions of specific things he goes back and forth on and it's a whole pattern. It doesn't just happen once or …