BookFiend’s Reviews > A Strange New World > Status Update

This is painful. So, so many mixed up words that stall the story, unlikable main character, and not enough development. I'm out.

This is a magical world and people have healing powers; why is she waking up all bandaged instead of healed? How does her super special familiar not know what happened?

The author just wrote that something was "memorising" rather than mesmerizing. These errors are littered throughout the book.

There is really not enough world-building happening here. The interactions are also really odd. The aunt is totally blasé about meeting her niece for the first time, and the main character's reaction to the Tim situation is weird. Plus the author keeps repeating things so it makes the main character seem really dumb bc she keeps being surprised by info she already learned.

This is not good. Now we are meeting four guys, and the author just refers to him - which him? So far there is a tall one, twins, and a fourth with no descriptor? So confusing and poorly written. Even in that short introduction, the author mixes up whether it was Thomas or Kenneth that spoke first.

I am so confused. The letter from the mom stated the daughter had been 18 for a few weeks, and I believe they are supposed to be in Australia. Why would they need fake IDs to drink if they are legal drinking age?

"The day had starts at 4 AM"? Really wishing the author had gotten an editor. The dialogue is pretty stilted overall too.

First person present tense is so incredibly off-putting. I was hoping it would just be for the dream that starts the story; sadly, it is not.

It's never good when you make your MC pedantic about grammar within a book already riddled with errors.