I read what I realized later was a series of self-pub novels last week on my trip, and I kept thinking of you and your reviews the entire time.
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The book never even came close to hooking me, but I didn't hate it, so I kept reading. Around 20% in I was thinking about giving up on it, and asked myself if I was enjoying reading it. "I'm not not-enjoying it..." That turned out to be the theme of the book: Was it bad? No, but it wasn't not-bad either. Did I like it? No, but I didn't not-like it...Pretty much summed up my reaction to those books. :D
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Still, by the end, I feel like I escaped prison somehow and wanted to find a good book to remind myself what good writing is like. :D
I experienced that same exact feeling yesterday. My current book is from a big publishing house (Penguin) by a skilled writer. Such a night-and-day difference! Even though the story is not to my tastes at all (I think it was written for preteen girls...) I'm enjoying it just because the author writes well.
OTOH, it got me lost in wikipedia for several hours reading up on all the historical concepts she talked about that I either had never heard of or didn't know much about, so...plus?That's a good bonus! I love it when a book either teaches me stuff or leads to me researching it myself. It's only too bad the rest of your series didn't deliver
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Usually when I encounter a made up name like that, my brain takes the first and last letter, and fills in something reasonable in the middle. So I might spend the whole book reading Phaet as Peet (Pete). Ph- caught my eye though, so I sounded the whole thing out, and realized what the author did. BAD, BAD AUTHOR, NO COOKIE FOR YOU
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I read what I realized later was a series of self-pub novels last week on my trip, and I kept thinking of you and your reviews the entire time.
This:
The book never even came close to hooking me, but I didn't hate it, so I kept reading. Around 20% in I was thinking about giving up on it, and asked myself if I was enjoying reading it. "I'm not not-enjoying it..." That turned out to be the theme of the book: Was it bad? No, but it wasn't not-bad either. Did I like it? No, but I didn't not-like it...Pretty much summed up my reaction to those books. :D ( ... )
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I experienced that same exact feeling yesterday. My current book is from a big publishing house (Penguin) by a skilled writer. Such a night-and-day difference! Even though the story is not to my tastes at all (I think it was written for preteen girls...) I'm enjoying it just because the author writes well.
OTOH, it got me lost in wikipedia for several hours reading up on all the historical concepts she talked about that I either had never heard of or didn't know much about, so...plus?That's a good bonus! I love it when a book either teaches me stuff or leads to me researching it myself. It's only too bad the rest of your series didn't deliver ( ... )
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Oh my god this is exactly like reading a tweet from the DystopianYA Twitter.
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