Jim Melvin
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Struggling with a book - Forged in Death in FantasyFans (Dezember 2016)
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- 2.3
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-- Wow. What editor had a chance to look at this? Info dumps, showing and telling of the same thing in the same paragraph, overly loquacious words where a simpler word or phrase would do...
-- Author insertions. Ugh
-- I have yet to find a character I can identify with or feel sympathy for.
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Okay, The story had started to improve enough I thought I might actually read the entire book. Then the author placed the primary POV character doing something that is physically impossible and any hope of suspended disbelief was gone.
To say there are issues would be nice. It would also be easier to read than the overly conflated vocabulary the author chooses. The dialogue is formal and stilted, doesn't feel like it flows smoothly at all. There are scenes where the author tells, then shows, sometimes on the same page. All the references to the older form of measure kept kicking me from the story. In one or two places, I found shifting POV from Third Person limited to Omniscient then back. Too much backstory is dumped, as is details regarding what may or may not be relevant to the story.
The wise old dragon imparting information on the clueless young warrior. The deadly spider... *yawn* cliché much?
Though if I were honest, the dragon seemed the best character up to the point I gave up.
As I said, too many bad writing hurdles for me to continue reading. Not even worthy of a full star.… (mehr)