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Terrible.
I can't believe this came from the writer of the excellent Divine cities books. The only explanation I can come up with is he wrote this in highschool or something as his first ever big writing project, which probably got an A but of course no one would publish it. Then, later he writes some great books and his publisher said "Write more! Got anything else? We'll publish anything you give us!", so he dusted off an old 3.5 inch floppy disk and converted this from its old Word 95 file and here it is.
Everything is stilted, the text is repetitive and awful. This is paraphrasing, but there was a page which went something like "She rubbed the large magical scar on her head and reflected about the large magical accident which had scared her head . She wished a magical accident hadn't scared her head so largely, it left her with a largely magical scar. On her head. She itched the scar on her large magical head and thought back to the days when she didn't have a magical scar on her head. Back then it was largely magical, the accident had scarred her (physically, on her head). Her scar itched."
About10% in she met a magical item which talks like a modern sarcastic internet person and I stopped reading. Perhaps the rest of the book gets better, but it was causing me pain to read it so I'll never know.
The worst part is I bought this 8 days ago and the refund window is a week.
September 2018 · Kindle Store · verified purchase