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Talk Nerdy to Me by Jett Masterson
3.0
Cute but longer than it had any right to be
This book is 450+ pages, but it only covers as much ground as a 250-page book. It wasn't BAD at all, but it really needs a good editor. There's a lot of superfluous stuff that is cute but doesn't drive the story at all, and the grammar/punctuation needs someone to take a hatchet to it. I started out highlighting every issue in my ebook, but I had to stop because it was SO MANY highlights. This book could win a prize for most run-on sentences or maybe most misused commas. Seriously, an editor would up this a star, and a really good editor might even make this 5 stars. The author has a good premise that is reasonably well executed, with totally reasonable prose. Lots of potential here. I will say, the smut is GRATUITOUS. Like, I started skimming it eventually because there was just so much and it was almost never tied into plot at all. If that's your thing, tack on an extra star.
This book is 450+ pages, but it only covers as much ground as a 250-page book. It wasn't BAD at all, but it really needs a good editor. There's a lot of superfluous stuff that is cute but doesn't drive the story at all, and the grammar/punctuation needs someone to take a hatchet to it. I started out highlighting every issue in my ebook, but I had to stop because it was SO MANY highlights. This book could win a prize for most run-on sentences or maybe most misused commas. Seriously, an editor would up this a star, and a really good editor might even make this 5 stars. The author has a good premise that is reasonably well executed, with totally reasonable prose. Lots of potential here. I will say, the smut is GRATUITOUS. Like, I started skimming it eventually because there was just so much and it was almost never tied into plot at all. If that's your thing, tack on an extra star.