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A review by thegrimhobbyist
The Pizza Deliveryman's Tale by Ronan Barbour
Did not finish book. Stopped at 30%.
DNF at 30%.
I got as bored as the main character thought his date was, in the date scene I ended on. There were a few good moments in this book, the opening especially sucked me in. I was also intrigued by the GPS. But that is too few and far in between the padding of the story. I absolutely despised every character, so there was no one to latch on to to get me through to the grand finale.
His writing style isn't for me either. There needs to be more clearly defined page breaks in between scenes, as it does jump around from one moment to the next. While some moments are double spaced for a page break, some scenes were missed - to avoid that, some sort of symbol could have been added in between. A slice of pizza perhaps? There also should be more clear indication on who is saying what line. The last page I stopped on, if you had zero context on who was talking, was literally just dialog on top of dialog with no indication on who was saying what.
Clearly I'm one of very few who didn't like this, given there's so many high star ratings, but I just couldn't continue.
I got as bored as the main character thought his date was, in the date scene I ended on. There were a few good moments in this book, the opening especially sucked me in. I was also intrigued by the GPS. But that is too few and far in between the padding of the story. I absolutely despised every character, so there was no one to latch on to to get me through to the grand finale.
His writing style isn't for me either. There needs to be more clearly defined page breaks in between scenes, as it does jump around from one moment to the next. While some moments are double spaced for a page break, some scenes were missed - to avoid that, some sort of symbol could have been added in between. A slice of pizza perhaps? There also should be more clear indication on who is saying what line. The last page I stopped on, if you had zero context on who was talking, was literally just dialog on top of dialog with no indication on who was saying what.
Clearly I'm one of very few who didn't like this, given there's so many high star ratings, but I just couldn't continue.