Lyn Pitt

Terrible!!!! Not only was the characterisation boring. Dialogue childish and boring and repetitive plot, the author and his editors failed in sentence structure and semantics. Good writing involves using a variety of sentences. Nobody told this author that. Many sentences were drawn out and over use of the word ‘and’ happened regularly. Plus overuse of ‘Then’. 2 things I tell my students what not to do. Use a variety of like get and short sentences!! Not sentences right throughout the novel with 4 ‘and’s in them. Right throughout I wanted to get out my red pen and edit this dreadful writing. The supposed critics whose reviews are in the front of the book couldn’t possibly have read it or it would have been edited more correctly. The phrase ‘in the road’ ground my bones every time I read it. They are not ‘IN the road’ !!! They are ‘ON the road’ Otherwise they’d be bitumen!!! A disgrace that this literature is being forced on students. Choose something of a decent literary standard!!!