Review: Poor quality of writing
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 02 16, 2013
It was the first book I boought without reading the sample first and now regret it intensely. It was cheap and there were a lot of good reviewes, so I didn't check the rwiting style like I usually do.I couldn't finish the book, got to about 50% of it and felt it was not worth the torture.Pros:- The fabula is ok, not great, but ok. Could have been much better, has potential, but it was lost.- There were a few bright points in dialogs, for example he teasing between Matt and Petey, live and believable at places.Cons:- The writing style if that of a high school essay. The main epithets were "good" and "bad". Each line of the dialog was preceded by "He said"/"He asked" (and even if the author felt the need to indicate the speaker each time - there are so many synonyms...) This and oher stylistic problems can easily be spotted from the first pages, so before buying it - read the sample, maybe my standards are too high.- Realtionships between characers are shallow. As someone already mentioned, the author did a lot of telling and almost no showing.There were other positive and negative issues, but I can tolerate such an immature smplistic writing style in fanfiction, not in a fully fledged book.