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A Garden Lost in Time (A & B Crime)
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What a hot mess!
Though the prose itself is fine, the inconsistencies and loose ends are incredibly irritating and nonsensical. It’s as though Aycliffe just threw down his ideas in a torrent, changing his mind willy-nilly without bothering about coherence.
There are too many strands to the plot and some of those strands are simply left hanging. Mostly, there are events that have nothing to with the hauntings and serve no real purpose in the story. Also, some of the hauntings seem pretty random and unrelated to what eventually becomes the main plot thread.
There’s a whole lot of telling with very little showing and there are some issues with how the author seems to understand age - a 15 year old is not a child. There are general lapses of logic.
Some of the silly, but incessant inconsistencies:
A character we’re told at the beginning is 43 we’re later told is 39.
A character we’re told is 10 is later said to be 8.
The main character is mistakenly referred to by another character’s name more than once.
There is a mistake with another character’s name.
A whole passage from the middle of the novel is repeated word for word toward the end of the novel.
A character says that his door doesn’t lock only to lock it a few pages later.
And there are more...
A good editor might have salvaged this by making it less annoying and by tightening up the plot. Overall it feels as though it was thrown together carelessly in order to publish it quickly.
Though the prose itself is fine, the inconsistencies and loose ends are incredibly irritating and nonsensical. It’s as though Aycliffe just threw down his ideas in a torrent, changing his mind willy-nilly without bothering about coherence.
There are too many strands to the plot and some of those strands are simply left hanging. Mostly, there are events that have nothing to with the hauntings and serve no real purpose in the story. Also, some of the hauntings seem pretty random and unrelated to what eventually becomes the main plot thread.
There’s a whole lot of telling with very little showing and there are some issues with how the author seems to understand age - a 15 year old is not a child. There are general lapses of logic.
Some of the silly, but incessant inconsistencies:
A character we’re told at the beginning is 43 we’re later told is 39.
A character we’re told is 10 is later said to be 8.
The main character is mistakenly referred to by another character’s name more than once.
There is a mistake with another character’s name.
A whole passage from the middle of the novel is repeated word for word toward the end of the novel.
A character says that his door doesn’t lock only to lock it a few pages later.
And there are more...
A good editor might have salvaged this by making it less annoying and by tightening up the plot. Overall it feels as though it was thrown together carelessly in order to publish it quickly.
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