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A review by charlieavocado
Mrs. Mix Up by Candace Harper
Did not finish book.
A three arms, five hands experience.
[Feel free to see my shared highlights (with commentary!) if you think I'm exaggerating any of this.]
What even was this? I finally put it down at 75% finished, and I don't expect to ever complete this book. Was it edited at all? There are sentences that are just halfway finished, sometimes running into a completely unrelated sentence. Tenses change. Very difficult to keep up with who is saying what (I suspect perspectives are changing also). Time is irrelevant, because on the first night of the conference, sometimes it's the third night, and I think one character wears three different outfits, having seemingly not changed more than once? Honestly, I had to do so much work keeping up with the story because of the lack of editing that it was hard to enjoy what's there. The premise was great, the execution didn't do it for me. Save your time. Life's too short to read unedited books.
Also, lots of inconsistencies between the TWO author's profiles in the book, and the myriad of them online. In this day and age I'm not sure if any of it is true or if it's all a fiction (pen names are one thing, this is another), and I'd rather get virtually no information on the author in such a situation.
[Feel free to see my shared highlights (with commentary!) if you think I'm exaggerating any of this.]
What even was this? I finally put it down at 75% finished, and I don't expect to ever complete this book. Was it edited at all? There are sentences that are just halfway finished, sometimes running into a completely unrelated sentence. Tenses change. Very difficult to keep up with who is saying what (I suspect perspectives are changing also). Time is irrelevant, because on the first night of the conference, sometimes it's the third night, and I think one character wears three different outfits, having seemingly not changed more than once? Honestly, I had to do so much work keeping up with the story because of the lack of editing that it was hard to enjoy what's there. The premise was great, the execution didn't do it for me. Save your time. Life's too short to read unedited books.
Also, lots of inconsistencies between the TWO author's profiles in the book, and the myriad of them online. In this day and age I'm not sure if any of it is true or if it's all a fiction (pen names are one thing, this is another), and I'd rather get virtually no information on the author in such a situation.