Don't Mess With The Reader: 2 A Sense of Place

The festive break saw me catching up on my fiction reading, which led to an unexpected amount of eye-rolling and some muttering beneath my breath. The titles were a mix
of mainstream, small press and indie, but it was the mainstream which
made me stare. Were these novels signed off while the editors were on leave?

The problems I focus on in this short series should never have made it as far