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"as she slammed it down on his head, she felt it hit him" 😮 wow this action is intense

I love that this character is supposed to be an over the top american mans man but his only distinct personality trait is that he always wants a cheeseburger. At least it's accurate

I switched to the audiobook and the narrator is doing whole sections that are focused on the french character in a French accent 😭 just describing his thoughts but they have to sound French 🤣

I'm torn because if a robot wrote this book in 35 seconds then I don't want to waste my time reading it, but it has so many stellar examples of poor writing that I'm almost enjoying it anyway

When learning about Blake Pierce I discovered that Nancy Drew and other classics were also written by corporate ghost teams, and I'm conflicted. Obviously writing is a poor use of AI since most writers actually enjoy it. If it's AI I hope this is the first and last AI book I ever read. But I guess there's nothing wrong with the ghost thing. Filling this market doesn't take anything away from real literature

I wanted to know if Blake Pierce was a man or a woman because the writing always made me assume it was a chick for some reason. And I thought, Blake? Turns out it's some book company using ghost writers and probably AI and now I'm depressed.

A big problem with this writing is the constant use of the passive voice and the vast majority of the scene being filtered through the main characters perspective when we're in the third person, so she's not telling us the story, but it still feels like she is. We don't get to know what's happening until she looks around or acknowledges something. To be fair I'd be surprised if the author cares about immersion

One page later, "she walked out into the pallid spring sunshine." When did she walk back in? 🤣

"they walked into the fresh, cool air of outside" is the most descriptive this book has been yet for the settings and we're supposed to be in Paris