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A Most Dangerous Profession

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  • Posted July 18, 2012

    What I Liked: The blurb sounded highly intriguing. That's about

    What I Liked: The blurb sounded highly intriguing. That's about it :^/

    What I Didn't Like: I didn't care for how each chapter began with a letter to some such person. Pointless and confusing. After the fourth one, I just skipped them altogether. Also, the dialog was awful and contrived, the pacing horrendously slow and the characters uninteresting. And&mdash;to a lesser extent&mdash;the book doesn't work as a stand-alone. I was so lost. It'd probably be a good idea to read the other earlier books in the series first.

    Finally, the biggest wtfery belonged to the writing! Seriously, writing in accents of any kind is such a huge pain in the butt to read for me! So annoying and insulting and&mdash;ultimately&mdash;the cause of my DNF'ing this book. If you want everyone to have a heavy accent, then say so. I can apply it in my head, thank you very much.

    Final Analysis: Great potential, bad execution. This was such a waste of my time (good thing I DNF'd at the 38% mark). I won't be reading the other books in this series or any historicals from this author again. Apprehensive about trying the contemporaries from the same author as well. And this is by no means a slur on the author, I have mad respect for them. They're obviously very very good at what they do, but that writing style just doesn't work for me. I prefer convenience and simplicity over authenticity.

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