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3.06 AVERAGE
3.06 AVERAGE
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
It was a drag
dark
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I have a lot to say about this one. I ended up dnfing this book at around 80 pages. I skipped to the end and read last couple of pages and it didn’t affect what I had read till 80 pages and I didnt miss nothing by skipping the whole thing. You see the problem here??
The characters just arent described that well and yet there are too many descriptive paragraphs. Too much narration instead of conversations and dialogs. No showing just telling.
No warning before a certain time jump or character pov. Its just too much narration.
And maurya himself doesnt have much of a life outside of this case. Like maybe sprinkle in some dates or love interests or family? But nope.
This is one of those books where the main characters are actually side characters. The characters are not really active and lacking personalities. Even if they have personalities, then theres just not enough conversation and action to flush them out.
All of this and the story is in third person perspective and written in present tense. That for some reason didnt feel right. Like maybe it should have been in past tense if it was written in TPP. Maybe had it been Danish’s POV, it could have been soo much more interesting and perhaps we could have gotten a sneak peek into his personal life. I just did not feel connected to anyone in this story and that is distracting. Very distracting and boring.
There could have been flashback scenes instead of bland story telling but no. Telling and not showing. Certain words felt off cuz they weren’t supposed to be used to describe that particular action. This whole thing felt like a very poorly translated hindi Bollywood movie script with no creativity in developing the plot, the characters. There was absolutely zero action and zero drama in this. No emotions exchanged, no strong side characters, and no sub plot here. Just nothing!!! Why was this even published if it was going to be a big 200 pages something monologue about a murder mystery that has no mystery at all whatsoever.
Indian writers should either not write in English or research the rules and basic writing style before daring to publish these kinda mediocre stories with childish writing. Like I as reader can read articles upon articles on how to be a better writer and you whose an actual writer are so lazy that you don’t care to better your writing and provide something above sub par to the audience?
And we as audience should do better in bringing good actually attention worthy stuff to light. What about the editors? Are they so desperate that they cant even criticise such mediocre writing and point the writers in the right direction?
The characters just arent described that well and yet there are too many descriptive paragraphs. Too much narration instead of conversations and dialogs. No showing just telling.
No warning before a certain time jump or character pov. Its just too much narration.
And maurya himself doesnt have much of a life outside of this case. Like maybe sprinkle in some dates or love interests or family? But nope.
This is one of those books where the main characters are actually side characters. The characters are not really active and lacking personalities. Even if they have personalities, then theres just not enough conversation and action to flush them out.
All of this and the story is in third person perspective and written in present tense. That for some reason didnt feel right. Like maybe it should have been in past tense if it was written in TPP. Maybe had it been Danish’s POV, it could have been soo much more interesting and perhaps we could have gotten a sneak peek into his personal life. I just did not feel connected to anyone in this story and that is distracting. Very distracting and boring.
There could have been flashback scenes instead of bland story telling but no. Telling and not showing. Certain words felt off cuz they weren’t supposed to be used to describe that particular action. This whole thing felt like a very poorly translated hindi Bollywood movie script with no creativity in developing the plot, the characters. There was absolutely zero action and zero drama in this. No emotions exchanged, no strong side characters, and no sub plot here. Just nothing!!! Why was this even published if it was going to be a big 200 pages something monologue about a murder mystery that has no mystery at all whatsoever.
Indian writers should either not write in English or research the rules and basic writing style before daring to publish these kinda mediocre stories with childish writing. Like I as reader can read articles upon articles on how to be a better writer and you whose an actual writer are so lazy that you don’t care to better your writing and provide something above sub par to the audience?
And we as audience should do better in bringing good actually attention worthy stuff to light. What about the editors? Are they so desperate that they cant even criticise such mediocre writing and point the writers in the right direction?
mysterious
medium-paced
adventurous
challenging
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
lighthearted
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No