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Storm the Gates (A Knight's Revenge #1)
Elizabeth Dear
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The description of this book had me interested, but a little over 10% in and it’s losing its intrigue. Does it get better?
A pet peeve of mine is when authors use words like “scrawny” and “puny” to describe a character, especially the MFC. And then there’s slight contradictions, like describing someone as “elegant” but then the very next sentence their “wobbling” in their heels.
Putting this on pause to try and find something to get me out of this slump, might come back.
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Storm of Shadows (The Firestone Academy Book 1)
Hannah Haze
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Mave Fortune (Blackstone Academy, #1)
Elizabeth Dear
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Mave Fortune (Blackstone Academy, #1)
Elizabeth Dear
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Clash of Claws (Shifter Guardians Academy, #1)
Elizabeth Dear
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Clash of Claws (Shifter Guardians Academy, #1)
Elizabeth Dear
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So far, I’m enjoying where this is headed.
My one gripe: I’m not too keen on the extra descriptive words. Feels as though we could have cut back on a whole bunch of prose by deleting the extra fluff words.
Example: “I ran in and finished the last bit of tidying and locking up that I needed to do before quickly returning to the shiny gray truck.”
We already know she’s moving quickly on account of “I ran”, so adding it again feels a little clunky, same with the truck description, we had that earlier in the book so it doesn’t feel like it needs to be repeated.
I’m hoping as the book continues the writing gets a little more ✨crisp✨
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Crown of Olympus: The Hades Trials — Book I
Kate Asher
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Crown of Olympus: The Hades Trials — Book I
Kate Asher
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I made it a third of the way into this book, having to skip and skim read past really poor writing, hoping and praying I could just get into the story but I could not.
Unsure if this has been edited, it certainly reads as if someone word vomited onto a computer and called it a day.
This had such potential but I could NOT keep going, too many random descriptive words, repetitive sentences and ideas. Unfortunately, a big fat DNF from me.
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How Does It Feel? (Infatuated Fae, #1)
Jeneane O'Riley
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So far, I’m enjoying where this is headed.
My one gripe: I’m not too keen on the extra descriptive words. Feels as though we could have cut back on a whole bunch of prose by deleting the extra fluff words.
Example: “I ran in and finished the last bit of tidying and locking up that I needed to do before quickly returning to the shiny gray truck.”
We already know she’s moving quickly on account of “I ran”, so adding it again feels a little clunky, same with the truck description, we had that earlier in the book so it doesn’t feel like it needs to be repeated.
I’m hoping as the book continues the writing gets a little more ✨crisp✨