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1. How did you experience the book?
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May 02, 2017 03:24AM
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The second and the fifth chapter are really good.
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I feel the same. A couple glitches in the first chapter were a little off-putting for me and I thought about putting it down. Part of the problem was for the first few days I was also trying to finish another book. I saw your comment, Manuel, about how much you enjoyed it and decided I would have to finish. I found myself being grabbed more and more by the story. In the last 100 pages, I would notice an elevated heart rate and sweaty palms. That's bloody good writing.
I am swamped with work and really need to get back to revising a contract, but I put it aside an hour ago to finish the book - I couldn't wait. Now I really do need to get to it, but I will come back to discuss more, though probably not until tomorrow. I was up late working on this thing last night and I need to get some rest tonight..
I was the proofreader for this book (Deanna Verhoff was the first client of my new editing business last year), so I started off just reading it to find problems of spelling and punctuation. There's only so much of that I can do in one day before my eyes lose the ability to focus. Yet I found myself getting so caught up in the story that I sent the document to my Kindle Fire so that I could read in bed at night. This was ordinary reading, of course, not proofreading, so the next day I would need to go over the same portion to do the proofreading. This allowed me time to appreciate how really good this story is.
I read it in four days; the first two days it did grab me but I could still put it aside; the last two days I read nonstop. The three days of darkness are very well done. Even though we see them only through Gina, who is protected (except for brief moments), they are overpowering.
Mariangel wrote: "I read it in four days; the first two days it did grab me but I could still put it aside; the last two days I read nonstop. The three days of darkness are very well done. Even though we see them on..."You give me envy for my poor English level i continue in the 100 pages :-(.
