Status Updates From Pembrim: The Hidden Alcove

DNF.
I wanted to like this but it is all over the place. The writing is very scattered brained and frequently jumps down rabbit trails before coming back to the point.
I love Bre’s online content and enjoy following her. I think it’s great that she turned a childhood daydream into a real story. That takes courage and a lot of hard work! Just not for me.

I Forgot my book at home so a got this ebook to read at breakfast and lunch at work. But this reading style is so thick. More describing thang storytelling.

I really wanted to like this book. The author did an amazing job of self-promotion. Unfortunately, it is clear why this book was not picked up by an agent or publishing house. So far, this is a poorly written language lesson and world building exercise with a plot that flits senselessly from one place to the next, and the grammar is atrocious to the point of being distracting.

I'm honestly struggling to read this. The constant back and forth between characters and the plot is a brain sore. I've decided to indulge myself in other novels before coming back to it.

I really wish this author had fought the good fight to find a publisher with an experienced, capable editor who could have helped with some of the geometry of placement errors, incongruities, and atrocious grammar errors. This author had a wonderful idea, but it is so terribly executed that it’s hard to read.

So far, this book is painful. I’m slowly slogging my way through because it seems like an interesting concept. The author just desperately needs to take a writing class, or maybe just pick up a basic grammar book. Sentence fragments and confusing sentence structure are not helping the flow of the prose.