Title: How many adverbs can you find?
Product review: I must agree with the one-star reviews of this book. The prose is wooden and embarrassing. Dialog in the first several pages is devoted to the most clunky exposition I have witnessed on a published page.I tried to read this book 5 times in different circumstances, and each time I grew more irritated with the pretentious and adverb-filled prose! It seems that Tremayne had entered a contest to see who could write the most dialog without using the words "said" and "asked." When I got to this sentence at the top of page 60, "Sister Gwid grimaced negatively.", my brain screamed, "Do you mean NO?"There are no absolute Tom Swifties, but good God, everyone smiles softly, nods sourly, replies mournfully, examines sharply, demands curtly, and--finally, when I found the word "said," it was "said quickly."Do not waste your time--there are plenty of well-written mysteries out there!
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