Review: Picky Picky
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 16, 2014
This series has possibilities, but there is a lot of groundwork that has to take place.  In an effort to avoid the usual, much effort is made to come up with new expressions.  Example:  visage instead of face.  Variety may be the spice of life, but the end result of this is a stilted, artificial presentation.When will authors learn that badly is an adverb and not an adjective.  If you're unhappy or ill, you feel bad.  If you feel badly your fingers are probably frozen and are not sensitive to feeling.  After having someone say he feels "badly" three times in two sentences, the author has the other character tell him "Don't feel bad."  Go figure.The conversations between characters do not ring true.  Everyone speaks the same as everyone else.  There doesn't have to be a character using bad language for differentiation, but it would be nice if individual personalities came through with a little variety.