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OMG, three pages in and I am physically cringing from the quality of the writing. As people have finished it I assume it gets better...
— Aug 11, 2012 08:38PM
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Aug 11, 2012 08:48PM
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k, I'm just skimming it now to see what the main plot points are. I can't actually read this.
Uh oh. Well, at least it was free...
Elizabetta wrote: "Uh oh. Well, at least it was free..."Yeah, and it's a nice change to have a character-driven book. Zie just needed an editor really, really badly. It's little things that drive me so bonkers I can't enjoy the story. I bet most people wouldn't even notice them.
Are you going to keep going? Sometimes those little editing mistakes get so irritating I can't continue with a book - they get like a splinter under the skin that keeps getting rubbed the wrong way.
Eve wrote: "like a splinter under the skin that keeps getting rubbed the wrong way."Yeah, it was exactly like that. So, no, I bailed. I skimmed the whole thing in 5 mins to find out what happened, and then read the epilogue which sets up the next book.
And there was stuff like, at the beginning of the book one MC finds the body of "a little girl" with blond curly hair. I was like, yeah, yeah, missing white girl syndrome. But then later we find out it was the body of an 11-year-old. When is the last time you described an 11-year old as a little girl?
Yeah, too much stuff to read to waste time..
did you see fictionwise discount is 60% this week?
Eve wrote: "did you see fictionwise discount is 60% this week?"Yeah, I just saw someone mention that. I should stock up...
