The Thirteen
Susie Maloney
Adult Urban Fantasy
1/5 Stars
This book was so confusing to read that
I only made it through the prologue and a couple chapters before
blinking my eyes rapidly and tossing it to the side to start a
different one.
The premise is a good one – witches
in a small community doing witchy things. The follow-through leaves a
lot to be desired, however – especially in the department of
editing.
Excerpt:
A confusing sentence from the prologue:
Not even when the flames swept up from
the floor and began their climb over her
surrender your
flesh.
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The book is lacking in periods and
grammatical punctuation in general. It's also overflowing in brackets
with ridiculously useless information, stopping the flow of the
story.
The editing was sub-par and many
sentences had repeating words with no proper sentence structure.
There were also a multitude of incomplete, short sentences. How
anyone could make it through the entire book is beyond me. I cannot
fathom how it ever got published in the first place, let alone got
such a rave review from The Globe and Mail.
Moloney also takes the time out at the
end of her book to thank her editor:
Most of all I want to thank the surely
supernatural Anne Collins, who edits with elegance and respect, and
whose patience and dedication really wrote this book.
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I think a certain editor needs to find
a new job.
The book could have had the most
amazing plot ever written – but you would never know for the
ridiculous way it's put together.
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