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Okay so I had read comments about this book where people
said they thought maybe people were being harsh and exaggerating the badness of
this book so they read it only to prove it wasn’t very good indeed.
Well I vowed after writing the original post that I would
pick the book up and read the first few pages which I usually do to see if a
book interests me. I thought too maybe people were just you know exaggerating
or hating and to be honest on my post I said I didn’t read it and never would
but curiosity got the best of me, lol!
So a few days ago while at the local Books-A-Million with my
mom I decided to try and find the book while I was in the Teen Books section.
Since I write Young Adult Novels I like to see what is new and fresh and
occasionally love to read some.
Usually when I see a book I read the first page to get a view
of if it will draw me in. Since I am dead broke right now books are a luxury so
I don’t buy even the ones I love, instead I put them on my To Read in the Future
list, which I will admit is growing longer by the Day, Week, Month and Year,
lol!
Okay so I assumed when looking for the book that there would
be more than one and it would be easy to find even it has been out for a year
now. I looked and looked and finally found it, they had only one copy there on
the self.
So I picked it up and while standing there I flipped to the
Prologue and began to read. I honestly expected it to surprise me and be good
and make me want to read more. About one paragraph in I didn’t care why the
character was digging to the surface of earth that they didn’t think people
survived, or I think so as I kind of skimmed. So I thought maybe it is one of
those Prologues that are kind of boring, though I admit I love a Prologue in
books and heck I write seriously long Prologues for my novels but some
Prologues can be boring so I skipped to the first chapter.
So the first page annoyed me. The writing was flat and just boring.
Some words didn’t make sense or were spelled wrong and a few paragraphs should
have been two paragraphs instead of one, they were way too long. Plus there was
an area that had way too many and’s repeated. I can’t remember the words used
but it was like this:
First part of sentence then Word and Word and Word and Word.
– Didn’t look right to me, there should have been commas instead of ands. I
just put in Word in place of the actual words I can’t remember, lol! Sorry it’s
been a few days and I forgot!
I would have written something like this though much more
polished lol! This is just my example not taken from novel- The heart of the dwindling
fire mesmerized her senses as she watched enthralled by the smoke, ashes, embers,
and the crackling logs.
Okay so I skimmed to the next page and couldn’t be bothered
to care as the feel of the words didn’t feel right. You would think with the
publishing house, editors, and ghostwriters they had that the book would be
engaging, well written, and well edited but it didn’t feel that way. So I
skipped to the end page and was like oh great there probably will be a sequel
as others said.
I put the book down and went onto other books as I wanted to
browse more engaging novels before my mom finished and was sure to ask if I was
finished as I can be a lengthy browser at book stores. I can literarily spend
hours browsing and occasionally buying, lol!
The cover wasn’t impressive, the story theme is over done,
the wording was mediocre, there were grammatical errors, and it just wasn’t
something that made me want to read more.
I really did go into it wanting to give it a chance but I
didn’t care for what I read at all. I am sure maybe someone else may like it
but I didn’t care enough to read more or put it on my To Be Read in the Future
list.
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