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Sworn (2011)

by Emma Knight(Favorite Author)

3.06 of 5 Votes: 3

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English

genre

Romance

publisher

Emma Knight

series

The Vampire Legends

review 1: Wow. I don't even know what to say. This was quite seriously, the worst book I have ever read. And I read a lot. I don't even know where to start with this one. I actually stopped reading it about 3 chapters in, but then couldn't resist checking back to see if it was really as awful as I was remembering. It was worse. I can't believe I finished it. Honestly, the main reason I did finish it is that there are a limited number of free books on iBooks (this being one, obviously) and iBooks is the only ebook platform I can discreetly use on slow days at work. The book might (and that's a really big might) be readable with some decent (or any?) editing, but really, the story is bad enough that I don't even think that the best editor in the world could save it. It's like a horrib... morele mash-up between the worst after-school special you've ever seen, Twilight, The Vampire Diaries and a 12-year-old's diary.
review 2: Briefly: a badly written and edited, unimaginative, uninspired piece of work that doesn't deserve publication.My trawl through free Google Play YA fantasy e-books has thrown up some gems of bad writing, illogical and pedestrian plots, and outright bizarreness, but this has to be one of the worst to date. What's so bad about it? Let me count the ways...-Copious errors that any editor worthy of the name should have found, including typos, missing words, incorrectly capitalized words, and more.-Incredibly plodding writing almost on a "See Spot Run" level, with (among other things) whole paragraphs leadenly listing what brands of clothes/makeup the protagonist is wearing, and endless expository waffle telling the reader what she's thinking instead of showing it.-A plot that has very, very clearly been cribbed straight from Twilight but with more mundane teenage shenanigans* - such that it ends just as our heroine is about to find out that the Obligatory Brooding Superhuman Handsome Guy she's proclaimed herself madly in love with after knowing him for about 24 hours is a vampire. (After proclaiming the same thing about another guy then changing her mind a day or two earlier.)*The mundane teenage shenanigans - romance aside - are something vaguely resembling a redeeming feature, in that they could be turned into a more interesting story. I wonder if perhaps the author would prefer to write non-fantasy fiction, but felt obliged to include vampires for great moneys? less

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