Exe Gesis
Kylo was here
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Ok, I finished Bloodline by Claudia Gray. Seriously, I cannot stand how she constantly goes into detail about what people are wearing and their hairstyles. Like, in the middle of a deathly important conversation or bit of action, she'll embark on a description of such things. However.....it WAS a good book/story. Very well-written, writing style.
I can say that now, because I'm about a third of the way into the first of three Aftermath books, and I hate this writer already. His writing style makes it very hard to follow along. So much unrealistic dialog too, like every character, be they good guy or bad guy, be they a grim loner or young adult, they all talk in the same manner. He doesn't give different characters different talking styles. The way he also spaced out the story of this first book, is poorly done. The story jumps away to another scene going on somewhere else, and another scene, and another scene, so that there are ten different things going on at once, and you're supposed to remember what was going on in the first one, by the time it comes back round to picking up where the first one left off. Badly done too because there might be high tension going on in that scene, then he cuts away to some non-tense scene, then switches to some other mildly tense scene, etc etc, so when your interest does pique with the tension, you get pushed back into some boring interlude that lasts for 10 pages. Bad sense of story-telling. You don't take people up then down, then down, then somewhere in the middle, then back down, then up again. Another thing that annoys is his over-use of silly words or phrases, either that character's say in chatter, or him describing something.
However, the one thing I like about his writing style is his quick short sentences and phrases. Doesn't muck around like Claudia Gray does. Gray will go off on some extravagant description of people's clothing and hair-styles. Whereas this dude, is simply hitting the points, the story points. Doesn't at all go off into tangents of descriptions....except those describing people's actions outside of quotes, or to quickly paint the environment (like a hangar or room, etc).
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In short....Bloodline has a really good story happening, and you can easily follow it from the first page to the last. It's a sequence of events, a chronology, and as the story evolves it keeps building up tension, action, shocking things, and you're really engrossed in the linear story.
Whereas, Aftermath (so far) is kind of like a book form of a SW movie, how a movies jumps back and forth across multitudes of different scenes going on. Except that in Aftermath there are far too many different stories going on, some highly tense, some silly and boring, and the constant jumping back and forth only makes it harder to follow, no sense of a story slowly building to a climax.
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But, of course, I will persevere and read all three Aftermath books. I do punish myself so.
I can say that now, because I'm about a third of the way into the first of three Aftermath books, and I hate this writer already. His writing style makes it very hard to follow along. So much unrealistic dialog too, like every character, be they good guy or bad guy, be they a grim loner or young adult, they all talk in the same manner. He doesn't give different characters different talking styles. The way he also spaced out the story of this first book, is poorly done. The story jumps away to another scene going on somewhere else, and another scene, and another scene, so that there are ten different things going on at once, and you're supposed to remember what was going on in the first one, by the time it comes back round to picking up where the first one left off. Badly done too because there might be high tension going on in that scene, then he cuts away to some non-tense scene, then switches to some other mildly tense scene, etc etc, so when your interest does pique with the tension, you get pushed back into some boring interlude that lasts for 10 pages. Bad sense of story-telling. You don't take people up then down, then down, then somewhere in the middle, then back down, then up again. Another thing that annoys is his over-use of silly words or phrases, either that character's say in chatter, or him describing something.
However, the one thing I like about his writing style is his quick short sentences and phrases. Doesn't muck around like Claudia Gray does. Gray will go off on some extravagant description of people's clothing and hair-styles. Whereas this dude, is simply hitting the points, the story points. Doesn't at all go off into tangents of descriptions....except those describing people's actions outside of quotes, or to quickly paint the environment (like a hangar or room, etc).
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In short....Bloodline has a really good story happening, and you can easily follow it from the first page to the last. It's a sequence of events, a chronology, and as the story evolves it keeps building up tension, action, shocking things, and you're really engrossed in the linear story.
Whereas, Aftermath (so far) is kind of like a book form of a SW movie, how a movies jumps back and forth across multitudes of different scenes going on. Except that in Aftermath there are far too many different stories going on, some highly tense, some silly and boring, and the constant jumping back and forth only makes it harder to follow, no sense of a story slowly building to a climax.
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But, of course, I will persevere and read all three Aftermath books. I do punish myself so.
