concept better than writing
The blurb promises so much potential, and while the twenty pages provided doesn't really delve into it much yet, I can see the set-up for what is bound to be an incredible plot. The story seems really interesting, and the cover is cute. However, the writing is what gets me. The dialogue is written in a way that you can't really tell one character from another, and the switch from a first person prologue to third person main plot was jarring (albeit relieving, because the prologue read like a badly written fanfiction). The sentences have no variation and use adjectives that you're told to avoid at school, but given the circumstances of the narrator that can be excused. I guess I'm really interested to see where this book ends up, even if I don't really like the first glimpse.