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Dividing Eden
by Joelle Charbonneau
I cannot remember the last time I gave a one-star rating. Holy crap, are there problems with this book.
I don't mind when authors take a plot and make their own version of it--just do it well. I'm so much more willing to respect an author for flopping if they do something unique. This book has the same "royal-heir-battle-off" that soooooooooo many other books have but it was not done well.
The entire logic of the battle off doesn't even make sense. Two heirs have equal claim to the throne...so to avoid a problem the council wants to pick people other than them? wtf logic is that? I know there needs to be a problem but at least be creative.
The dialogue and inner monologues are are boring or repetitive (sometimes it's both). there is no need (other than to fill pages) to repeat the SAME damn thing over and over and over again when nothing has changed!
There is such little world development in this book. The author was either lazy, took up too much space with (paragraph above) or way too much edited out. The character development was also pretty lackluster. There are a few character traits at the beginning and the relationship established between the twins at the start...three pages later all of that is abandoned. The characters are infuriatingly stupid and naive. it's blatently obvious from the beginning that this person is the villain but everyone else is so stupid, boring and repetitive that I just started to hate them.--I WAS BEGGING FOR GEORGE R.R. MARTIN TO BURST IN AND JUST RED WEDDING EVERYONE. An illiterate toddler could've picked out the villain at the end of chapter two yet somehow two adult-ish aged people who are potentially going to be running a country were too dense to figure it out? really? And what royal family gives their children such poor education that they can be this easily manipulated?!
This book has been done to death so if you're going to publish it, you make sure to do a half decent book. Joelle did not and I am so beyond amazed that this was published. There's better fan fiction that I would've much rather read.
I don't mind when authors take a plot and make their own version of it--just do it well. I'm so much more willing to respect an author for flopping if they do something unique. This book has the same "royal-heir-battle-off" that soooooooooo many other books have but it was not done well.
The entire logic of the battle off doesn't even make sense. Two heirs have equal claim to the throne...so to avoid a problem the council wants to pick people other than them? wtf logic is that? I know there needs to be a problem but at least be creative.
The dialogue and inner monologues are are boring or repetitive (sometimes it's both). there is no need (other than to fill pages) to repeat the SAME damn thing over and over and over again when nothing has changed!
There is such little world development in this book. The author was either lazy, took up too much space with (paragraph above) or way too much edited out. The character development was also pretty lackluster. There are a few character traits at the beginning and the relationship established between the twins at the start...three pages later all of that is abandoned. The characters are infuriatingly stupid and naive. it's blatently obvious from the beginning that this person is the villain but everyone else is so stupid, boring and repetitive that I just started to hate them.--I WAS BEGGING FOR GEORGE R.R. MARTIN TO BURST IN AND JUST RED WEDDING EVERYONE. An illiterate toddler could've picked out the villain at the end of chapter two yet somehow two adult-ish aged people who are potentially going to be running a country were too dense to figure it out? really? And what royal family gives their children such poor education that they can be this easily manipulated?!
This book has been done to death so if you're going to publish it, you make sure to do a half decent book. Joelle did not and I am so beyond amazed that this was published. There's better fan fiction that I would've much rather read.