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abetterjulie 's review for:
Weave a Circle Round
by Kari Maaren
I found the sentences to be clunky and distancing for most of the first third. I was still pausing to put a name to a face even at the end.
This book felt more like a misplaced and mis-styled middle-grader book. If that had been the editing process - take this version and transform it to really cool middle grade - I would have liked it much more.
I rarely like plot that forces the characters to accept not knowing what's happening, so if that's a large requirement of a story, I'm gonna struggle.
If the author called Mel fat or said she waddled one more time...I was going to throw the book across the room. This is not okay, and each time it threw me out of the story and into a fury. And it happened quite a lot. Why would you do this? Mel walked. Mel skipped. Mel moved. Mel wandered. Mel strode. I could go on. Did anyone else in the process of getting this book to print not pause and think, "Hey, maybe not characterize the smart sibling as fat and waddling?"
This book felt more like a misplaced and mis-styled middle-grader book. If that had been the editing process - take this version and transform it to really cool middle grade - I would have liked it much more.
I rarely like plot that forces the characters to accept not knowing what's happening, so if that's a large requirement of a story, I'm gonna struggle.
If the author called Mel fat or said she waddled one more time...I was going to throw the book across the room. This is not okay, and each time it threw me out of the story and into a fury. And it happened quite a lot. Why would you do this? Mel walked. Mel skipped. Mel moved. Mel wandered. Mel strode. I could go on. Did anyone else in the process of getting this book to print not pause and think, "Hey, maybe not characterize the smart sibling as fat and waddling?"