Unfinished books
Apr. 25th, 2007 04:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
keilexandraJust transferring notes on a few unfinished library books from my doodling/drafting notebook.
The Faerie Path by Frewin Jones
312 pages (hardcover)
Genre: Fiction/Fantasy/YA
Predictable plotline and just a general story that doesn't live up to the gorgeous cover. But it's a speed read, being very solidly YA; my biggest issue was with the prose. Descriptions are terrible--in fact, narration in general is terrible. Lots of boring sentence structure, passive voice, and misuse of "to be" verbs. I couldn't shut up the little voice in my head constantly restructuring sentences into more concise, active form, so I quit reading. This novel screams amateur, so I don't know how it got published--was the editor asleep or something?
Abundance by Sena Jeter Naslund
539 pages (hardcover)
Genre: Fiction/Historical
With this book, the writing was fine (if a bit wordy for my taste)--I just wasn't in the mood for a long historical novel. It's interesting, but not enough to hold my interest. Another gorgeous cover, though.
The Faerie Path by Frewin Jones
312 pages (hardcover)
Genre: Fiction/Fantasy/YA
Predictable plotline and just a general story that doesn't live up to the gorgeous cover. But it's a speed read, being very solidly YA; my biggest issue was with the prose. Descriptions are terrible--in fact, narration in general is terrible. Lots of boring sentence structure, passive voice, and misuse of "to be" verbs. I couldn't shut up the little voice in my head constantly restructuring sentences into more concise, active form, so I quit reading. This novel screams amateur, so I don't know how it got published--was the editor asleep or something?
Abundance by Sena Jeter Naslund
539 pages (hardcover)
Genre: Fiction/Historical
With this book, the writing was fine (if a bit wordy for my taste)--I just wasn't in the mood for a long historical novel. It's interesting, but not enough to hold my interest. Another gorgeous cover, though.
