Jean Lowe Carlson
Autor(a) de Blackmark
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Obras por Jean Lowe Carlson
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Conhecimento Comum
- Sexo
- female
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 9
- Also by
- 1
- Membros
- 82
- Popularidade
- #220,761
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Críticas
- 6
- ISBN
- 12
The base story is intriguing, and has a lot of potential but the book had a lot of 'first novel' errors that kept drawing me out, all the way to the end with an 'epilogue' that should have just been labeled Chapter 39. The author never uses the dialogue tag 'said'. This was the most taxing error. Friends do not say their friends names inside dialogue when they are speaking to them. The adjective level is high in dialogue scenes, and make it hard to stay engrossed in the action. The characters are constantly murmuring, nodding, sniffing, etc. Just use said.
The world build, and layers of treason are all well crafted, all the way up to the various layers to the kingsmen. At it's core there is a great story here.… (mais)