Status Updates From Yours for the Taking

Is this the first book the narrator has ever recorded? She punctuates every other sentence with the emphasis on the last word - not upspeak, or like a question, but with that “wow!” or “can you believe it?” accent that tweens use when they want to sound sophisticated while reading aloud in class.

“The light was like a photo filter that turned everything sepia toned” is one of the laziest similes I’ve ever.

When I was in a writing MFA program, I started a dystopian novel set about 75 years in the future. The first chapter was an intro. The second chapter was an overview of what had happened to create the dystopia. Everyone in my class agreed that the transition into a dystopia should be its own story, not backstory, or a chapter written in past tense. I’m having the same feeling listening to this book.

so far the writing feels a little amateurish, I was surprised to find out this isn't a debut, because why did we open with the physical description that read straight out of a fanfic I wrote in 8th grade