aztlan's Reviews (238)

The Devil in the White City. Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

DID NOT FINISH: 9%

There's dramatic writing and then there's willfully misinterpreting a primary source to suit your portrayal of a person's character.

The Archive Undying

Emma Mieko Candon

DID NOT FINISH: 21%

I'm confused and couldn't tell you anything about any of the characters. I just,,,,am not invested at all.

Forget hiring an editor, can someone proof read this book please? I DNFed after three chapters because it was simply unreadable. I am not a prose person, I have pretty low standards for writing quality, but when there is entire sentences I cannot interpret and whole words missing that make the entire sentence meaningless, even I get annoyed. Some examples:

In fact, he had already forgotten about his.

His what?

"Do you want to go somewhere a bit more private, Mr. Undefeated?"
Christ did that for Jayden at the nickname he's been given by everyone in the tennis league...

What?

He was more than excited to see if what Coach said met his expedition as well.

I think you meant expectation...

I know this is a pre-publication ARC and so some errors are to be expected, but I did not receive this book long before publication, and the sheer quantity of errors I found even in the few chapters I made it through concerns me for the published version.