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britts-books · 10 months ago

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Do you ever just try to read something, and even though it’s a fun premise, the style of it manages to hit a ton of your writing pet peeves and you just can’t do it?

That was my experience tonight with “A Witch’s Guide to Fake Dating a Demon” by Sarah Hawley.

#about books #a witch’s guide to fake dating a demon #sarah hawley #bookblr #in a nutshell #it’s a fun premise #ruined by #break neck pacing #swearing just for the sake of seeming ‘modern’ in the first chapter #a huge problem of #tell don’t show #for example #by the end of the first chapter I can’t picture the mc’s house/greenhouse with any degree of clarity #and when mc is nervously rambling to said demon #her dialog tag so helpfully/s says she “babbles when she gets nervous #like um we could see that’s exactly what was happening without that!#and the most egregious part?#this supposed feared and now disgraced demon #DOESN’T EVEN HAVE AN ACTUAL DEMON FORM #HE SHOWS UP AS A GENARIC ‘HOT BOI’ W/HORNS AND THATS IT #now granted #he might show that form later but I’m not about to slog through 20-something chapters of him and a dollar store fusion of #maribel madrigal #and #isabela madrigal #speed run a relationship to find out #book review #this has been a rant #writing pet peeves

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