Ramy Vance
Autor de Mortality Bites
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(eng) Canadian living in Edinburgh with wife, child, and imaginary dog.
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Conocimiento común
- Otros nombres
- Vance, R.E.
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Canada
- Lugares de residencia
- Edinburgh
- Relaciones
- Anderle, Michael (cowriter)
- Aviso de desambiguación
- Canadian living in Edinburgh with wife, child, and imaginary dog.
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- Obras
- 55
- También por
- 1
- Miembros
- 164
- Popularidad
- #129,117
- Valoración
- 3.6
- Reseñas
- 4
- ISBNs
- 10
One typical bad YA thing this book does is preach. Racism bad, be honest with yourself, accept people that are different, yadda yadda.
It's not as blatant as I have seen in other YA books but it doesn't entirely avoid coming across as patronizing at times. Don't get me wrong, I agree with the sentiments, but the delivery is just so shallow and blunt. It's like telling you that you should wash your hands after going to the toilet. duh.
But my biggest problem with this book is something else. Namely the lack of a consistent plot.
I have a hard time putting this into words so I'll just have to fall back on an explicit example. Imo everything that could be considered a spoiler is just worldbuilding and no plot twists are spoiled but I'll put it in a tag anyway.
This book treats logical consistency more like a vague suggestion than anything which is a dealbreaker for me.
It seems to me that the murder mystery is almost not present at all not because the author intended it that way but because he got side-tracked from one educational (preachy) sub-plot section to the next.
And while the book doesn't shy away from describing quite gruesome and bloody scenes, beyond that it's very naive, two-dimensional, light-hearted, corny, friendship-is-magic, and a bit of angsty romance. I think you get the idea. This is one of many books that suffer from this problem of trying to have upbeat friendships and be dark and gritty at the same time and instead just end up with this confused inconsistent mess of an atmosphere that is neither.
Maybe this changes in later books but it doesn't seem to me like the author took proper care with consistency and in my experience series like this generally get worse in quality over time, not better.
One minor thing that nonetheless started to annoy me quite a bit is the MC constantly speaking her thoughts out loud. It's supposed to be a character quirk but it's used way too often and seems more like a cheap plot device than a genuine character quirk.
Apropos cheap plot devices. There are two other tropes in here I despise. Constant unnecessary misunderstandings/miscommunications and sudden unnecessary bouts of caginess about key information which are used to prevent sometimes major plot points from just evaporating on the spot.
The plot as well as the various short sub-plots don't fit together naturally and are positively flooded with unbelievable and inorganic plot steering.… (más)