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A review by mx_manda
Gray by Milly Taiden
2.0
This book started out good—very promising—and then it just....
This became a train wreck and fast...not because of the story itself—it's a solid 3 for a fluffier read without any care for logistics of the ridiculous scenarios created—but because it has so many editing issues that I can't believe it was released as-is. I've seen a lot in a year of intense self-published book reading: this is by far one of the laziest editing jobs I have seen in almost 400 books. I'm almost impressed.
Almost.
What did I catch while reading?
✏︎ Multiple instances of the incorrect character's name being used for the person being described in the text, including pronouns that mis-matched and caused serious confusion.
✏︎ Multiple instances of bizarre sound-alike words that make no sense in context being used. For example, in one part of this story they are fighting a group of male wolves. One gets bitten, and he should have yelped in pain. As written, he whelped, which is funny, but surely not what the author intended. I have some serious questions about this male otherwise.
✏︎ Multiple instances of incorrect verb tenses. So many. So distracting.
✏︎ Gray is the third installment in this Alpha Geek series, and I also read the second, Zeke, which features Skylar's sister, Alexa. Alexa is another lion shifter, which makes sense as all of the Milan clan have been lions so far. In this book, Alexa is described several times as a wolf shifter. I just.
I even reborrowed Zeke to double check the ending and make sure I didn't miss some animal switch at the end of that book. Nope. Alexa is definitely a lion. Except apparently now she's a wolf. It's downright embarrassing that an author can not keep her own characters straight. I'm embarrassed for her.
And this doesn't even begin to dig into all of the fatphobic content in this particular segment or the lack of personality in either the FMC or MMC. Fandoms and dieting are not personalities.
This became a train wreck and fast...not because of the story itself—it's a solid 3 for a fluffier read without any care for logistics of the ridiculous scenarios created—but because it has so many editing issues that I can't believe it was released as-is. I've seen a lot in a year of intense self-published book reading: this is by far one of the laziest editing jobs I have seen in almost 400 books. I'm almost impressed.
Almost.
What did I catch while reading?
✏︎ Multiple instances of the incorrect character's name being used for the person being described in the text, including pronouns that mis-matched and caused serious confusion.
✏︎ Multiple instances of bizarre sound-alike words that make no sense in context being used. For example, in one part of this story they are fighting a group of male wolves. One gets bitten, and he should have yelped in pain. As written, he whelped, which is funny, but surely not what the author intended. I have some serious questions about this male otherwise.
✏︎ Multiple instances of incorrect verb tenses. So many. So distracting.
✏︎ Gray is the third installment in this Alpha Geek series, and I also read the second, Zeke, which features Skylar's sister, Alexa. Alexa is another lion shifter, which makes sense as all of the Milan clan have been lions so far. In this book, Alexa is described several times as a wolf shifter. I just.
I even reborrowed Zeke to double check the ending and make sure I didn't miss some animal switch at the end of that book. Nope. Alexa is definitely a lion. Except apparently now she's a wolf. It's downright embarrassing that an author can not keep her own characters straight. I'm embarrassed for her.
And this doesn't even begin to dig into all of the fatphobic content in this particular segment or the lack of personality in either the FMC or MMC. Fandoms and dieting are not personalities.