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This made me laugh! Sorry it was such a letdown!
Those 5-star reviews sure are all incredibly similar in length (barely the minimum required word count for Amazon reviews) and nonspecific in content.
Thank you again for another great review! This is another one I would have wanted to read otherwise.
Marc *Dark Reader with a Thousand Young! Iä!* wrote: "Those 5-star reviews sure are all incredibly similar in length (barely the minimum required word count for Amazon reviews) and nonspecific in content."
oh you're right! They're all exactly the same format: 2-4 word bold heading and 3-5 vague sentences that all say a lot of nothing 🤔
Brina's Emotional Borrow wrote: "This made me laugh! Sorry it was such a letdown!"
I enjoyed writing the rage review at least! 😂
Lisa wrote: "Thank you again for another great review! This is another one I would have wanted to read otherwise."
I suffer so you don't have to 😇😅
Oh thank goodness I saw your review. Genuinely thought I was going crazy. Was drawn to this book by the magical fantasy elements but found it more and more frustrating the more I read. Kept going back fact checking myself to see if I missed something. The last fourth of the book seemed to have been written by an entirely different person. AI makes sense especially since the author’s biography didn’t contact any way to contact them. Good review.
Justice for Colin is so real!! I worried about Colin through the whole book😂
I totally agree with the points. I wanted to love this book because it comes with all promise given that it has a good storyline in my opinion . I casting aspersions about AI, but there were some red flags in here for me. Talking about things having opinions. That happens multiple times. Of multiple things having opinions and that’s normally a red flag for AI. Also you mentioned the time being out of sync. Is notoriously bad at time. On the day of the festival, she stays up till almost Dawn, then goes to bed for an hour, gets up and it’s the pre-Dawn light. The next thing that happens is she hears Orla delivering the bread downstairs, and then she goes downstairs and has a cup of tea, during which time Orla comes to deliver the bread. Which she had already done. I’ve got to say it’s a red flag again – AI is perfect at these it’s clinging to an idea it likes (opinions) and time, things happening before things that should come later and vice versa. I really love the concept but I also really see AI red flags throughout and I hate saying that because it’s so easy to say AI about a book and there’s no reliable test.
This had me laughing thank you for the review I will now skip over this book and look for a better one
@Julie-Ann you're right! I think I blocked a lot of the odd timings out, like my brain protecting me from the trauma? but there's so much of "I was in the kitchen talking with character A. I made a cup of tea and waited for character A to arrive" 🫠
@Susan haha same! Poor Colin. The only justice is he didn't have to suffer through this story!
YES! I spent a good 10 minutes looking for when Milo came into the picture the first time, oh wait that was the first time. The book is so inconsistent. I’m on chapter 14 and had to come here to see if it was just me. This book feels like it’s wasting my time.
I agree with everything you said. But on top of the Justice for Colin, can we put out a search party for Lily?! Her and Marcus were finding their love again and then she was gone but Marcus was still there painting? I wish I had read your review before reading this book 😩
@Kelli omg yes Lily! Hopefully she escaped to a better book 🤞🏻
i am so sorry this was a huge disappointment but i laughed so hard at this review, the serial killer bit took me out!
Lily is where my brain couldn’t take it anymore! WHERE DID SHE GO? at the binding ceremony and Mrs. Chen’s grandma’s thing, Marcus was there but Lily is never mentioned, I thought I was going crazy
This is a completely accurate break down - I truly feel that this book was a therapeutic exercise for the author but did not get the revisions it needed to become something for an audience as well.
Okay...good...I'm not crazy. Milo wasn't mentioned before the moment where she turns and sees him, and I was left wondering, "WHO is Milo???"
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Those 5-star reviews sure are all incredibly similar in length (barely the minimum required word count for Amazon reviews) and nonspecific in content.
Thank you again for another great review! This is another one I would have wanted to read otherwise.
Marc *Dark Reader with a Thousand Young! Iä!* wrote: "Those 5-star reviews sure are all incredibly similar in length (barely the minimum required word count for Amazon reviews) and nonspecific in content."oh you're right! They're all exactly the same format: 2-4 word bold heading and 3-5 vague sentences that all say a lot of nothing 🤔
Brina's Emotional Borrow wrote: "This made me laugh! Sorry it was such a letdown!"I enjoyed writing the rage review at least! 😂
Lisa wrote: "Thank you again for another great review! This is another one I would have wanted to read otherwise."I suffer so you don't have to 😇😅
Oh thank goodness I saw your review. Genuinely thought I was going crazy. Was drawn to this book by the magical fantasy elements but found it more and more frustrating the more I read. Kept going back fact checking myself to see if I missed something. The last fourth of the book seemed to have been written by an entirely different person. AI makes sense especially since the author’s biography didn’t contact any way to contact them. Good review.
Justice for Colin is so real!! I worried about Colin through the whole book😂
I totally agree with the points. I wanted to love this book because it comes with all promise given that it has a good storyline in my opinion . I casting aspersions about AI, but there were some red flags in here for me. Talking about things having opinions. That happens multiple times. Of multiple things having opinions and that’s normally a red flag for AI. Also you mentioned the time being out of sync. Is notoriously bad at time. On the day of the festival, she stays up till almost Dawn, then goes to bed for an hour, gets up and it’s the pre-Dawn light. The next thing that happens is she hears Orla delivering the bread downstairs, and then she goes downstairs and has a cup of tea, during which time Orla comes to deliver the bread. Which she had already done. I’ve got to say it’s a red flag again – AI is perfect at these it’s clinging to an idea it likes (opinions) and time, things happening before things that should come later and vice versa. I really love the concept but I also really see AI red flags throughout and I hate saying that because it’s so easy to say AI about a book and there’s no reliable test.
This had me laughing thank you for the review I will now skip over this book and look for a better one
@Julie-Ann you're right! I think I blocked a lot of the odd timings out, like my brain protecting me from the trauma? but there's so much of "I was in the kitchen talking with character A. I made a cup of tea and waited for character A to arrive" 🫠
@Susan haha same! Poor Colin. The only justice is he didn't have to suffer through this story!
YES! I spent a good 10 minutes looking for when Milo came into the picture the first time, oh wait that was the first time. The book is so inconsistent. I’m on chapter 14 and had to come here to see if it was just me. This book feels like it’s wasting my time.
I agree with everything you said. But on top of the Justice for Colin, can we put out a search party for Lily?! Her and Marcus were finding their love again and then she was gone but Marcus was still there painting? I wish I had read your review before reading this book 😩
@Kelli omg yes Lily! Hopefully she escaped to a better book 🤞🏻
i am so sorry this was a huge disappointment but i laughed so hard at this review, the serial killer bit took me out!
Lily is where my brain couldn’t take it anymore! WHERE DID SHE GO? at the binding ceremony and Mrs. Chen’s grandma’s thing, Marcus was there but Lily is never mentioned, I thought I was going crazy
This is a completely accurate break down - I truly feel that this book was a therapeutic exercise for the author but did not get the revisions it needed to become something for an audience as well.
Okay...good...I'm not crazy. Milo wasn't mentioned before the moment where she turns and sees him, and I was left wondering, "WHO is Milo???"
