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Title: Amateurish at best
Review: Another fine example of one of my pet peeves when reading novels -- lazy or non-existent editing. I wish I had a dollar for every time (1) a character looked up (or down) and grinned (or frowned), (2) characters gathered in a circle, (3)adverbs were redundantly added (ran swiftly, hid cautiously, glared angrily, etc. etc.), (4) the word "faint" or "faintly" appeared, (5)a character moved or headed somewhere. There are many more examples of creative writing 101 errors in the novel, and they pulled met out of what promised to be a good story over and over again. I hope the writing became more polished as the series went on, but this, as written, doesn't motivate me to find out.
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