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A review by dingbatlikescomics
Stabbing in the Senate by Colleen J. Shogan
2.0
2/5
Decent start to a series; if I continue to read, I hope her descriptive style improves and Kit Marshall gets more of a personality. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I feel like there’s tons of details that I would like Shogan to delve into but she dodged the opportunity. For example, she describes Senator Langsford’s gardening as immaculate, but doesn’t go into the description of the flowers’ color, shape, or general qualities.
All she says is that there shrubs.
Just shrubs.
Also, when Kit recalls conversations, she’ll oftentimes gloss over the dialogue and just describe the content of the conversation in a very straightforward way. I understand sometimes this is necessary when having the relay information to other characters that the reader already knows, so as not to be terribly redundant, but it happens way too often and not always in necessary circumstances.
The characters do not have any unique qualities, and while that could make it easier for the reader to find themself in the characters, it just ends up making them seem like 2D paper dolls of annoying people that you are acquainted with that never change and consistently bother and waste your time.
Also, the dialogue. Gosh, I don’t think anyone talks like they do, or maybe DC staffers only talk in stiff, complete sentences? They address each other by name in the middle of conversation for one thing, and it’s towards characters that aren’t even Senators or Representatives. A lot of it feel unnatural and impersonal.
That being said, the plot was alright. I guess. Yeah that’s it.
Decent start to a series; if I continue to read, I hope her descriptive style improves and Kit Marshall gets more of a personality. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I feel like there’s tons of details that I would like Shogan to delve into but she dodged the opportunity. For example, she describes Senator Langsford’s gardening as immaculate, but doesn’t go into the description of the flowers’ color, shape, or general qualities.
All she says is that there shrubs.
Just shrubs.
Also, when Kit recalls conversations, she’ll oftentimes gloss over the dialogue and just describe the content of the conversation in a very straightforward way. I understand sometimes this is necessary when having the relay information to other characters that the reader already knows, so as not to be terribly redundant, but it happens way too often and not always in necessary circumstances.
The characters do not have any unique qualities, and while that could make it easier for the reader to find themself in the characters, it just ends up making them seem like 2D paper dolls of annoying people that you are acquainted with that never change and consistently bother and waste your time.
Also, the dialogue. Gosh, I don’t think anyone talks like they do, or maybe DC staffers only talk in stiff, complete sentences? They address each other by name in the middle of conversation for one thing, and it’s towards characters that aren’t even Senators or Representatives. A lot of it feel unnatural and impersonal.
That being said, the plot was alright. I guess. Yeah that’s it.