Earlier this month, I tweeted, "I would make a post about Kady Cross's The Girl in the Steel Corset, but it's so laughably bad that I wouldn't know where to start." The author replied to me (in good humor) saying no one had ever called her writing "laughably bad" before. I was actually kind of alarmed at the possibility that no one had yet pointed out the problems with the book, so here is a post delineating some of the things that make it so terrible. The good news for Cross is that a better editor could have fixed most, if not all, of it. The bad news is that she's now stuck with a lot of it for the remainder of the series.
( Spoilers/Review )
Reading through it, the real problem with this review is that it's too soft. I don't think I'm quite conveying just how bad this book is. Of course, as LeVar Burton used to say, you don't have to take my word for it, but if you do try reading it yourself, don't say I didn't warn you.
( Spoilers/Review )
Reading through it, the real problem with this review is that it's too soft. I don't think I'm quite conveying just how bad this book is. Of course, as LeVar Burton used to say, you don't have to take my word for it, but if you do try reading it yourself, don't say I didn't warn you.
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