Review: No interesting enough to buy
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 03 22, 2014
I enjoyed Mr. Nuttall's book "Bookworm" but found this one to be...dull. I only obtained samples of this one and "A Life Less Ordinary" - both apparently about young women finding out that they are capable of using magic. Neither attracted me enough to want to read the whole thing.One of the habits that Mr. Nuttall needs to remove is his consistent use of inaccurate words. His two favorites are the preposition TOWARDS and the adverb AFTERWARDS. They were constant companions in his Bookworm titles, a sign of lazy writing. There is no reason to say "She moved towards the window" when "She moved beside/to/beyond the window." I like an author who knows what is going on, and frequently Mr. Nuttall's descriptions leave me without a clear vision.In "Schooled in Magic" and "A Life Less Ordinary" I found sentences that were short and without direction, and plot that was uninteresting and redundant. Much of what I found in the samples of the two books were already present in the Bookworm series. Why do I need to read the same plot, with just some variety here and there?