Review: Fun read marred by writing flaws
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 24, 2013
Myrtle Clover is definitely worth meeting. She's the most fun character I've met in a while. Some of the other characters are also fun. The main problem here is what you find a lot of in the ebook market: this is essentially a draft product rather than a finished one. Yes, a good copy editor would help, but what ever happened to writers who learned the tools of the trade? The mystery is slight, and is revealed a bit too easily. An interesting twist on a common flaw here: while many authors have difficulty showing us rather than telling us, this author seems to do both. Much better to drop all the telling and simply let us watch Myrtle in action. Occasionally, her uniquely fun voice suddenly gets lost, which is disconcerting, but this is most likely due to the writer failing to go back and check everything.Many readers will have fun with this, but I can't help thinking what a shame it is that a writer with such talent doesn't put in the extra work to make her story shine.