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essjay 's review for:
Birthday Party Demon
by Wendy Dalrymple
I don't even know how to rate this. According to my rubric, its score is 2.9, but a 3 seems too high and 2.75 almost seems too low? It accomplished what it set out to do, but the editing was distractingly poor.
Eve sipped her root beer float as the friends Tina's cup remained mostly untouched as they sat on her bed later that evening staring into their root beer floats.
Lots of word salad sentences like that. The catalogue that was supposed to be dELiA*s was renamed dARiA*s, which was fine (and kind of funny), but then it was called dELiA*s in the middle of the book, then back to the other name. At one point, our MC receives a nasty scratch, but then two pages later her best friend is the one with the scratch, and she received it from someone who wasn't even present at the time?
A lot of instances like that, which made the book hard to follow bc I kept hyperfixating on the shit that was wrong or made no sense.
Will probably read the next book in the series to see if the editing was an author issue or an editor issue before deciding on a rating.