Title: Where was her editor?
Review: My son (nearly 9) and I consumed Pure Dead Magic and Pure Dead Wicked! We were so excited to discover Pure Dead Brilliant was coming out that I pre-ordered it in hard back (something I never do). Unfortunately we barely made it through a hundred pages. Ms Gliori is, indeed, brilliant (!) but we had two major problems with this book. It's darker than the others in the series (too dark for a 9 year old?) and, despite the wonderful characters, is horribly over written. Where was her editor! The long flowery sentences, packed with adjectives and adverbs, killed the humour and our interest in the plot. I struggled to read them, and my son struggled to listen. It seemed every few minutes one of us was saying "wait a minute, what was that?" Or, in our less intellectual moments, "huh?" Finally we gave up. Despite the $18. And went back to The Roman Mysteries series by Caroline Lawrence, with hugh sighs of relief.
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