Joel Padgett
This one should have been a slam dunk for me and ultimately I will read the next one if it happens but hopefully the author will get a more knowledgeable editor.
The protagonist’s thing is linguistics and having her diagram sentences frequently is cool and expected but having those sentences only in the diagrams breaks the focus of the reader (me).
Make sure the author is up to the mettle of her budding genius creation. If someone says “…he could care less”, there is no way someone has pendantic as Maggie wouldn’t flag that as incorrect even if only in her thoughts.
But worse for me is the avoidance of action. We only hear about most of that as exposition from mostly Maggie after the fact.
This one should have been a slam dunk for me and ultimately I will read the next one if it happens but hopefully the author will get a more knowledgeable editor.
The protagonist’s thing is linguistics and having her diagram sentences frequently is cool and expected but having those sentences only in the diagrams breaks the focus of the reader (me).
Make sure the author is up to the mettle of her budding genius creation. If someone says “…he could care less”, there is no way someone has pendantic as Maggie wouldn’t flag that as incorrect even if only in her thoughts.
But worse for me is the avoidance of action. We only hear about most of that as exposition from mostly Maggie after the fact.