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A review by lolasreviews
Crafting Unforgettable Characters by K.M. Weiland
2.0
I got this book as a freebie when signing up for the author's newsletter. I bought another book by this author as well. As I am interested in what she had to say about characters. Sadly this book didn't work for me. Something about the tone and writing style didn't really resonate with me. And there are some sentences that rubbed me wrong. There are some good pieces of information, but there are a few small points with lots of text around it that doesn't clarify or add to the point. It just felt like a lot of words for very few pieces of info.
I thought some of the points she made were great, like getting to know your characters, or giving your characters flaws or that characters don't have to be nice, but something about how she explained those points or her reasoning behind it just didn't quite work for me. The examples were all from books I hadn't read and didn't clarify the points much for me. And I didn't really care about all the quotes from other authors about characters, a quote here and there is fine, but there were quite some quotes here and they didn't really add to the content for me. I found the exercises not as interesting either.
To summarize: something about this book just didn't quite work for me. It has some good advice and tips for creating characters, but the writing style and tone didn't quite work for me. I also found there were only small pieces of information in lots of text. All in all this wasn't for me, but I plan to give one of the author's full length books a try to see if I like that.
I thought some of the points she made were great, like getting to know your characters, or giving your characters flaws or that characters don't have to be nice, but something about how she explained those points or her reasoning behind it just didn't quite work for me. The examples were all from books I hadn't read and didn't clarify the points much for me. And I didn't really care about all the quotes from other authors about characters, a quote here and there is fine, but there were quite some quotes here and they didn't really add to the content for me. I found the exercises not as interesting either.
To summarize: something about this book just didn't quite work for me. It has some good advice and tips for creating characters, but the writing style and tone didn't quite work for me. I also found there were only small pieces of information in lots of text. All in all this wasn't for me, but I plan to give one of the author's full length books a try to see if I like that.