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kriscent 's review for:
The Slaughtered Lamb Bookstore and Bar
by Seana Kelly
Could be better
The conversations between characters are dull and simplistic. In fact, many of the characters are dull and simplistic and add no real purpose to the story other than to make our MC look unintelligent and weak. For some reason MC's love interest, Clive, pines after her for no real reason. To make matters worse in their relationship, they barely know each other with the occasional glancing in each other's directions. In fact Clive is extremely protective of her but has only talked to her (for the first time) the day before. The only relationship I know of where two people have barely interacted, the male sends people he knows to follow her around, shows up at her house unexpected and breaks in, and is bossy and demanding is that of a stalker and its victim or Edward Collins and Bella from Twilight.
The world building is unimpressive and the storyline jumps around with no context as to what's going on or where they are going. There is neither character development or a plot. MC has no desirable traits, proves more than once that she's incompetent and throughout has to rely on the skill of others instead of growing as a person and obtaining her own skills. Overall MC is too much of a victim and can't possibly get past it to grow as an individual, stunting the book. In fact the most infuriating part is that MC keeps stating that she'll never be a victim again but then constantly puts herself in situations where she's being taken advantage of/being a victim. It honestly seems like the author was simply writing insert fanfiction and that's fine, but then label your book as such to avoid waisting the time of readers.
The conversations between characters are dull and simplistic. In fact, many of the characters are dull and simplistic and add no real purpose to the story other than to make our MC look unintelligent and weak. For some reason MC's love interest, Clive, pines after her for no real reason. To make matters worse in their relationship, they barely know each other with the occasional glancing in each other's directions. In fact Clive is extremely protective of her but has only talked to her (for the first time) the day before. The only relationship I know of where two people have barely interacted, the male sends people he knows to follow her around, shows up at her house unexpected and breaks in, and is bossy and demanding is that of a stalker and its victim or Edward Collins and Bella from Twilight.
The world building is unimpressive and the storyline jumps around with no context as to what's going on or where they are going. There is neither character development or a plot. MC has no desirable traits, proves more than once that she's incompetent and throughout has to rely on the skill of others instead of growing as a person and obtaining her own skills. Overall MC is too much of a victim and can't possibly get past it to grow as an individual, stunting the book. In fact the most infuriating part is that MC keeps stating that she'll never be a victim again but then constantly puts herself in situations where she's being taken advantage of/being a victim. It honestly seems like the author was simply writing insert fanfiction and that's fine, but then label your book as such to avoid waisting the time of readers.