Review: Great Story Line; Poor Execution
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 25, 2014
This is a novella that tantalized the reader with a well-written beginning but fails to deliver the expected treat, leaving this reader with the feeling that what could have been a good read was delivered prematurely.In this story, a young woman in her late teens is looking for a summer job. She responds to many job postings and a few days later is invited to interview for courier's position. When she arrives for the interview, she is ushered into an enormous mansion and meets a best-selling author with more than 40 best sellers to his name. She quickly finds out that the job on offer is quite different than what was advertised and that the real job involves a type of alchemy that burst open her imagination. Under the influence of this alchemy and the tutelage of the aging author, the young woman begins to write her first novel.This introductory part of the novella is well-written with a lot of sensory detail, but when the plot begins to unfold, this reader fell into a rabbit hole into a Disney-sequel wild ride, twisting and spinning through a skeleton of a story with pieces of plot popping up out of nowhere with sudden plunges into pieces of plot and out again, knowing what supposedly happened without understanding exactly how it all fits together.The novella's editor did the author an injustice by releasing an underdeveloped AND poorly edited as an eBooks before the story was brought into full bloom. This injustice spreads to the reader who is left winded and unsatisfied as if she had been given a glimpse of a banquet hall but had not been aloud to really partake.Hopefully, the author will find a good editor to help develop this story into the good young adult novel it is meant to be.**Disclaimer: I received a free copy from the author in exchange for an honest review.