Title: I stopped reading on page 23 ...
Product review: This is the sentence that made me give up on the book: "When we entered the classroom, Angela went to sit at a black-topped lab table exactly like the ones I was used to."For the love of God. *That* is the making of a bestseller? That sentence would get torn apart in any fiction-writing class.I recognize that I am not part of this book's target audience, but nor was I the target audience for the Harry Potter series or A Series of Unfortunate Events, and I loved ever volume in each of them.Kudos to the marketing team behind this book and all that came after it. But I wish kids were reading - and aspiring to - better writing.
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