Review: Star Light
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 10 12, 2012
Neither hated it, or loved it, but just can't seem to get past the overuse of similes. Every page, every paragraph, is like a boxer coming in for the KO. When you think the story is about to continue with fewer similes, they arise again to knock you back like an all-star baseball player slugging a home run. Getting past the first few "intro" chapters was a bit of a challenge, as I was reminded of modern purple prose, like the marsh gasses rising in the full moon.See what I did there? In all seriousness, the overabundance of similes is simply distracting to the point of abandonment. Surely there are other ways to achieve the desired atmosphere. There are other issues at play in my decision to stop; several typos and grammatical constructs to make your head spin ("with whom she didn't want to be with").