Disappointing

I caught up on all my reviews at Netgalley recently and put in a request for a murder mystery that sounded interesting. Unfortunately, it was really terrible and my most constructive comment was that it really could benefit from more revision before publishing. So many of the details would change from one scene to the next and it seemed that having someone just read through it should have picked this up. The conversations are equally bad with a person saying one thing in a scene and then a very different thing elsewhere. As I understand it, it’s rather expensive to get reviews through Netgalley and the cheapest method is through a co-op on the site. It doesn’t seem like any editing has been done on it so I wonder if they even have editors through this publisher.

I might have thought this was a debut novel but it seems the writer has already done two other books. The previous one was also on Netgalley and most of the reviews were similar to what mine is for this one. It doesn’t seem like the writer has taken on any of the criticism. Anyway, I won’t publish reviews anywhere aside from Netgalley as it doesn’t seem like there will be any benefit to the writer.

On a related note, my book blog is called One More Page. It’s supposed to be on the sidebar but it seems the sidebar is missing in some cases. I’m still looking into it.