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A review by mrswestsreads
Gifted by Kora Greenwood
1.0
DNF: I got about halfway through and couldn’t do it. This is a self published novel that desperately needed an editor. I couldn’t get past the issues and was honestly bored a lot while reading it. I literally finished 4 other books during the time (1 month) that I tried reading this book.
1. The idea behind this book could have been an amazing dystopian story, but it was poorly executed. Due to sooo many plot holes and lack of world building. So if first off, I have read many dystopian novels where the world building occurs throughout the story. This does not happen. We are thrown into a story where we have more questions than answers for why the world of Paramus is the way it is. Then there are the plot holes. For instance, in the first chapter that Arin is at Cortex and finds out that her roommate is the guy who scored highest the year before, she states that she barely knew him. Then when they are talking together in next chapter, Arin says it’s as if no time has passed since they were together at school. So like, did they know each other before or not??? Linc’s hair color is both blond and brunette at various time points in the story. There’s more than that, those were just super annoying to me.
2. All the grammatical and spelling errors! This really put me off. Like I get it, no one is perfect and even in well edited novels you will find mistakes, but there were so many. Every chapter had at least one error and my brain couldn’t deal with it.
3. Slow start, somewhat interesting first 75 pages and then slows again. I kept falling asleep reading it. Ended up stopping and picking up other books. As I said above, finished 4 books before I finally gave up on this one. I kept hoping that if I stepped away and tried again I’d be able to finish it. Unfortunately, stepping away just showed me further how badly written this book was.
Props to the author for going through the process of self publishing. But may next time hire someone to fine tooth comb the story.
1. The idea behind this book could have been an amazing dystopian story, but it was poorly executed. Due to sooo many plot holes and lack of world building. So if first off, I have read many dystopian novels where the world building occurs throughout the story. This does not happen. We are thrown into a story where we have more questions than answers for why the world of Paramus is the way it is. Then there are the plot holes. For instance, in the first chapter that Arin is at Cortex and finds out that her roommate is the guy who scored highest the year before, she states that she barely knew him. Then when they are talking together in next chapter, Arin says it’s as if no time has passed since they were together at school. So like, did they know each other before or not??? Linc’s hair color is both blond and brunette at various time points in the story. There’s more than that, those were just super annoying to me.
2. All the grammatical and spelling errors! This really put me off. Like I get it, no one is perfect and even in well edited novels you will find mistakes, but there were so many. Every chapter had at least one error and my brain couldn’t deal with it.
3. Slow start, somewhat interesting first 75 pages and then slows again. I kept falling asleep reading it. Ended up stopping and picking up other books. As I said above, finished 4 books before I finally gave up on this one. I kept hoping that if I stepped away and tried again I’d be able to finish it. Unfortunately, stepping away just showed me further how badly written this book was.
Props to the author for going through the process of self publishing. But may next time hire someone to fine tooth comb the story.