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A review by sapphirebubble_
The Wall by Gautam Bhatia
Did not finish book.
Please note this is not an attack on the author's capabilities or body of work. These are just my opinions based on what I have read.
I have seen other people enjoy this book, so I think it just wasn't for me. Maybe I am too stuck in my ways of how stories should be told or something to that effect.
This is in need of a serious restructuring and editing. I don't mean to be rude or explicitly mean, but it reads like a first draft that never passed through a professional editor's hand. It throws too much information at you immediately while giving you no markers that help you remember that scene or even recognise its importance. The prologue was 39 pages long, and it read like a chapter instead of a prologue. With the amount of information that is regularly thrown at you, the worldbuilding becomes too confusing and actually tiring to try and understand. Not only are the characters described in a fashion that allows you to imagine them in your mind's eye, their role in the squad or the story does not become clear. Readers need to be given a reason or curiosity to see the story through, none of which I encountered. I think it has a lot of potential and an editor's careful touch would have brought it out, not only highlighting important parts of the story but also cutting out some unnecessary pages that just padded the book.
I was provided a finished copy of the book by the author. All my opinions are my own and unaffected by this fact.
I have seen other people enjoy this book, so I think it just wasn't for me. Maybe I am too stuck in my ways of how stories should be told or something to that effect.
This is in need of a serious restructuring and editing. I don't mean to be rude or explicitly mean, but it reads like a first draft that never passed through a professional editor's hand. It throws too much information at you immediately while giving you no markers that help you remember that scene or even recognise its importance. The prologue was 39 pages long, and it read like a chapter instead of a prologue. With the amount of information that is regularly thrown at you, the worldbuilding becomes too confusing and actually tiring to try and understand. Not only are the characters described in a fashion that allows you to imagine them in your mind's eye, their role in the squad or the story does not become clear. Readers need to be given a reason or curiosity to see the story through, none of which I encountered. I think it has a lot of potential and an editor's careful touch would have brought it out, not only highlighting important parts of the story but also cutting out some unnecessary pages that just padded the book.
I was provided a finished copy of the book by the author. All my opinions are my own and unaffected by this fact.