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Barton Stanley asked this question about The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1):
I'm reading this book and I'm close to 25% done and I'm not seeing anything yet that justifies such positive reviews. Does this book take a long time to set up before the good stuff happens? I'm trying to decide how much longer I should give it before I bail.
DiscoSpacePanther There is no "good stuff" that happens in the book. It is all tired clichés and thin characterisations. Conflicts are raised and resolved within 10 pag…moreThere is no "good stuff" that happens in the book. It is all tired clichés and thin characterisations. Conflicts are raised and resolved within 10 pages or so, leaving no room for tension or character arcs. It is as if the author was following the junior-school approach to story writing: "This happened, and then this happened, and then this happened, and then this happened, and they were all friends at the end".

The writer has some ideas, but the material presented isn't quite good enough as a first draft. She needed a good editor to provide guidance on how to whip the narrative into shape, and to perhaps trot out the truism "conflict is the essence of drama", because the writer hasn't quite grasped it.(less)
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