Sean

If a relatively short novel of 300 pages is nothing for you and something you usually tear through anyway I would appreciate strong criticisms prior to the final re-write of my first novel. I haven't even looked at it in over six years. In short it is a murder/mystery, missing-persons investigation into a church burning where a body was discovered at the scene with a religious-cult back story based loosely on the Chitzen Itza's (Mayan ancestors) practice of human sacrifice.

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babylonDon

I haven't read your manuscript yet Sean, I'll start it next week, after our move.

I'm gonna derail (sorta) your thread, with a book review, because scrolling back in this forum didn't reveal any threads for that.

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ianmine

ohohoh! Me too! I'd love to read it after our move!

babylonDon

Wicked


Why did I ever pick up this book? I still have about ten pages to read, but it's like trying to mow wet cement.

My hostility for this overly dense fluff, is so consuming, that for now I can only think in invective:

It's Tolkien writing 'Buck Rogers in the 21st Century' fan-fiction, while snorting estrogen.

It's a silo full of chaff, with enough wheat for half a Ritz cracker.

Every character,save the lead, is a one dimensional tool, whose only purpose is to motivate the main character, and cheat you out of time you may have spent at a million better pursuits.

I will finish this book (as God is my witness), but I do not care what becomes of The Wicked Witch. She is so superficially drawn, as to be bogged down, along with the unfortunate reader, with so many cliche' observations and asinine, infantile musings about the nature of the soul, that you can't care about her.

I get it. You've 're-imagined' her as the protagonist, with father issues and socially responsible attitudes towards religion and politics. I SHOULD be able to relate to her on those levels, and might have, had the allegorical content, been less drab and obvious.

And EVERYTHING is drab, in this book. Even the scores upon scores, of wasted description of immaterial backdrop.

Just.....Feh.

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