book thoughts: The Road by Emma Clayton (2009)

[orangerful]

The Roar by Emma Clayton

My rating: 2 of 5 stars


Listened to this book while driving to and from work. After hearing so much high praise for it, I was very disappointed. While Clayton has a good story idea, her execution of it is very poor. First, this should have been a single book. After 500 pages, I was in no mood for a cliffhanger ending. Second, the writing was not very good. An editor should have told her to give her readers more credit - far too much telling instead of showing. I think 3rd Person Omniscient was a mistake for the narration style, I found it taking me out of the story more than helping me through.

I won't be picking up part 2. Maybe in a few years I'll read her next series and see if she's improved as a writer, or at least hired a better editor.



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I've been trying to figure out if listening to this book was a bad idea - if it made the writing issues more glaring to me because I was trapped in my car. But I started out enjoying it, it wasn't until she was saying "Chapter 45" that I started to get annoyed, and then when I saw it was the first in a series, I got really perturbed. Can no one write a SINGLE book anymore????