Title: Poor writing and lackluster storytelling
Product review: It is extremely rare that I put a book down and never intend to go back. I had high hopes for this book, but I was so disappointed after reading so many great reviews and hearing about how good it was.It starts out strong, but by about page 75 I was bored with the generic fantasy caricatures (not actual characters) and the generic fantasy setting. The last straw was a series of atrociously written pages wherein the author explains a plot point, and then explains it again, and then explains that he's explaining it. Give tween readers a little more credit. Good writing is good writing, no matter the age of the target audience, and this is not good writing.
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