Diamantine
2020 • 488 pages

Ratings26

Average rating3.9

15

Would have maybe been 4 stars like some of the others, but I'm getting overly tired of all the sentences that start like this:

That's...actually not a bad idea.
I...never thought of that.
You're...not wrong.

I'm sure I have quirks of my own that I don't notice and others do, but I'm not a published author. I am amazed that no beta reader or editor or someone hasn't mentioned how often this author uses this particular structure. Or maybe they have, and he still can't help himself. I am not one of those people that hates “nonstandard” writing, so ellipsis away for all I care. BUT! Stop doing it in exactly the same way, roughly 100 times per novel!!

November 16, 2021