Review: Really Bad Southern/Black Sounding Dialect (I think)
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 6, 2013
It is difficult to write phonetic pronunciations and accents into books. Small examples of how a person speaks work to give the reader a taste of how thing should sound in their head, but this was just way WAY to much of a good thing. Even with bad reviews I decided to give it a shot, and ended up marginally enjoying the story. At the beginning it interested me, but towards the end started to break apart and develop timeline gaps. It could have been enjoyable, but the writing style forced me to put a lot of effort into the reading. I think there is a base of potential here for a decent story, it's just bogged down. Hopefully the author will take the response to this initial story and make some changes in the upcoming book. I'd read it, if I didn't have to work so hard to understand it! The cohesiveness of the story line is difficult to properly review due to the glaring editorial challenges. That and I think this is meant to be a prequel, which might explain the lack of a real ending. Thank goodness it was free.