This Sunday Post is a tad bit late because of this book...
I absolutely hated the story in the beginning. In fact here is my first Goodreads status...
"There is a difference between the Maggie Stiefvater lyrical detailed description of a character's environment and gross prolixity of minutiae. There is a finesse to it which this author does not have. It is like he was trying too hard to make this story hip. I was trimming my son's hair, so I had switched the eARC to text-to-speech, and he was cracking up at how hokey the characters' conversational witticisms were. Ugh."
I think this is the only book I have ever read that, after I loathed a good chunk of it, thought the rest of the book more than made up for its failings and still gave it a solid five. It is YA Contemporary, by the way, so it is even more miraculous that I let that undesirable 1/5 of the book go unpunished. Ha ha. Anyway, I was reading instead of doing my post draft, and when I woke up I continued to read until I was finished.
I tell you about my problem with A CURIOUS TALE OF THE IN-BETWEEN.
WEDNESDAY'S WEIRD WORD...
You might be surprised about what I do in my spare time.
I was over the moon when I saw I had been approved for an eARC of Victoria Schwab's newest YA offering, THIS SAVAGE SONG!
I had nary a clue about the 50 review perks on Amazon!
TELL ME TUESDAY
Wednesday COVER REVEAL
By the author of my much loved Thorn.
Thursday BEYOND THE BOOKS
Why I started blogging.
TOP FIVE FRIDAY
Non-ARC spring tbr.
THE SUNDAY POST
Have a magnificent week!
I guess I might have to end up giving The Serpent King a try... even if it's a contemporary and I thought it was a fantasy book! *Whoops!*
ReplyDeleteI thought it was Fantasy, too, until I read the synopsis; ha ha!
DeleteWow- that book really turned around for you. Great! And nice posts this week- I liked your Thursday "me" post. I didn't know you did writing- how fun! That's a fun meme.
ReplyDeleteThose amazon factoids were interesting- I had no idea about the reviews thing either. Good reason to review our favorite authors more I guess, especially the smaller ones.
Under-the-radar indies are my thing, so making sure those books get rated and reviewed on Amazon is my new project! I think maybe either that author's editor said calm down on the descriptions and quit trying to make your characters sound like they are characters in a John Green novel, or he just fell into his own writing voice after awhile, but I don't know why he didn't go back and redo the beginning. I have a feeling it is going to turn a lot of people off before they get to the good part.
DeleteThat is one heck of a turnaround, I think I would just have given up to be honest!! Have a great week!
ReplyDeleteIf it hadn't been a review book I would have dropped it. Ha! :)
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