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A review by thegreatmanda
Gentleman's Club by N.T. Herrgott
Did not finish book. Stopped at 0%.
Did not finish, gave up on page 30 of 418, mildly heartbroken. I wanted so, so badly to love this book. It’s got a transmasc protagonist! Said protagonist sounds like a lovable himbo! The author is a queer person with autism! These are all things I love and/or want to support with my purchasing dollars, and I also bought this book knowing that I enjoyed the author’s other work, writing for the James Somerton YouTube channel.
Adding a note here on 12/3/2023 to say that the James Somerton channel has now been pretty conclusively shown to have plagiarized a lot of its writing from other content creators, which sadly explains a great deal about the quality of this book.
I was devastated to find that this novel reads like it hasn’t been edited or proofread. I’m talking about three or more instances on each page of typos, inaccurate punctuation or capitalization, incorrectly structured clauses and sentences, wrong words or verb tense being used, and/or not-technically-wrong-but-confusing tense usage. With several very heavy, brutally honest rounds of editing, I think there is a story and a main character here that I could love, but as it stands right now, getting through each page is a struggle as I mentally translate from Bad English to English.
Adding a note here on 12/3/2023 to say that the James Somerton channel has now been pretty conclusively shown to have plagiarized a lot of its writing from other content creators, which sadly explains a great deal about the quality of this book.
I was devastated to find that this novel reads like it hasn’t been edited or proofread. I’m talking about three or more instances on each page of typos, inaccurate punctuation or capitalization, incorrectly structured clauses and sentences, wrong words or verb tense being used, and/or not-technically-wrong-but-confusing tense usage. With several very heavy, brutally honest rounds of editing, I think there is a story and a main character here that I could love, but as it stands right now, getting through each page is a struggle as I mentally translate from Bad English to English.