Natalie’s Reviews > Human Reborn > Status Update

Approx 92,000 words in and I’ve got 2600 highlights flagging ‘telling not showing’, excessively repeated words/phrases, sentences that either don’t mean anything or are just a rephrase of the previous sentence, flow/clarity/word choice issues and typos/incorrect grammar. At this point I am so close to a DNF but I’ve never done that in my life being the annoying completionist that I am

307 pages just to get to the first major event 😭

This one is making me sad, so many interesting concepts drowned in some of the worst editing I’ve ever seen. How can a paid editor miss words or phrases being repeated quite literally hundreds of times?