Joshua Lienhardt

My kids love the book. I however get irritated reading it. It's not that I don't appreciate or love the genre bc I do. I am an avid Lord of the Rings fan as well as Harry Potter. My issue with the book is: I think it is poorly written. I think the author tries way too hard to be a good writer. The use of ridiculous as well as ridiculously big words are often unnecessary and ill timed. It's as if the author tries to hard to come off as a good writer or that they have an exceptional story. It's as if rather than coming up with descriptive adjectives for worthy things (such as characters, features, landscape, or climaxing moments) the author instead uses them for senseless things. It's as if the writer is writing for an assignment where they are challenged to and forcefully writes with as many forced descriptive words they possibly can. When you do that , those descriptive words lose their flare when it actually matters. It comes off as an endlessly dull story with descriptive words at every turn, which doesn't actually make moments and images stand out the way they should. I'm sure it's an unpopular opinion, and my kids like the book a lot. But I find it dreadful to read