Status Updates From Lightning

This isnt worth continuing. Why is Koontz so damn popular? I mean good for him. I'm happy for him. But how does he have so many readers? Wild.

I'm at the point in the book where it's had an orphanage for girls.

And all these conversations and dialogue are these twelve year old girls talking to each other. But there is no twelve year old girl who's ever spoken like they do in this book. It's more Bae characterization.
But I understand that is a big challenge for an author to get children's voice, correct.So I'll give them a pass for now.

My impression so far is that this book is dated has tons of cliches and terribly written characters, like really amateur-written characters.
But the book is rated so well so clearly I'm in the minority so I'm going to keep going. Hope for the best.

So far this is cliché central. The bad characters are all villains who monologue. Very cheesy opening so far