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A review by gennywren6237
Blood Wyne by Yasmine Galenorn
3.0
Look, there's a lot to like about these books. The characters are fun, if a bit Mary-Sue-ish. I really love that the world is so complicated, and that all of the characters have their own motivations and lives. It feels very real. But every time I start to really get into the story, something happens to make me sit back and wonder where the *fuck* her editor was during all of this.
One example that had me fuming was this sentence: I glanced back at the building in front of which we were standing.
There's no excuse for a sentence that clumsy in a published work. Where the hell was her editor? Her beta readers? I can understand that happening during writing, but it should have been caught during the editing process. And if it were just that one sentence, I'd shrug it off, but there are plenty of other instances. None of them are *awful*. None of them are so bad I'd quit reading the book, but they add up.
I realize this is a fairly early book in her series, so I'm hoping I'll see improvement in this, because I do intend to continue reading. The story is worth it.
One example that had me fuming was this sentence: I glanced back at the building in front of which we were standing.
There's no excuse for a sentence that clumsy in a published work. Where the hell was her editor? Her beta readers? I can understand that happening during writing, but it should have been caught during the editing process. And if it were just that one sentence, I'd shrug it off, but there are plenty of other instances. None of them are *awful*. None of them are so bad I'd quit reading the book, but they add up.
I realize this is a fairly early book in her series, so I'm hoping I'll see improvement in this, because I do intend to continue reading. The story is worth it.