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I can tell this used to be self published and I mean that in a bad way.
This book did not need to be over 400 pages. You could easily cut it down to 200 and still tell the exact same story. It just dragged for way too long with very little actually happening. That’s honestly the main reason I’m giving it 2 stars. I got so bored I started skimming near the end.
I don’t know if Bal Khabra used an editor, but it seriously needed one. The pacing was all over the place, the dialogue felt clunky at times, and there were way too many repetitive scenes that added nothing.
There were some moments that I thought were cute but overall, it just didn’t deliver. A tighter edit and a better structure could’ve made this so much better.