She goes through a horrible trauma, and then her supposed-love is like nah let her think I don't care and never did. The other overused phrase: 'I stroked my face hard.' Is there truly no other phrase with which to convey frustration or stress? This woman needs a thesaurus.Īnyway, back to the book's plot: There's a lot of unnecessary lying to our Giggler in this book. I started calling Elena 'the Giggler' at some point in book two, and she continues to live up to this moniker. The phrase 'I/he chuckled' was used nearly as many times as the male equivalent to the giggle. It's like the author doesn't want to use the words, 'I said' or some other speech indicator. Like, nothing can possibly merit this much giggling from our main character, who has endured a whole pile of terrible in this series. Ever since the first book, the author has used the phrase 'I giggled' EXCESSIVELY. I honestly don't know why I'm still tolerating this book series. This just kind of adds to the fanfiction vibe of this series, and it feels like it's not a professional book? There's also some blatant borrowing from Cinderella and Mulan in the Frostbite book. Just in the sense that the author was clearly inspired by elements of that series, and re-invented it with dragons. Had me laughing out loud that the reader was sassing the poor writing and they failed to cut it out in the final audio publication.Īs other reviewers have mentioned, there are a lot of parallels to be had between this series and Harry Potter. One of the most hilarious parts of this listen, was an accidentally unedited moment in which the reader was like 'There's no punctuation at the end of this phrase to indicate of it's the end of the sentence or the chapter, so I'm just going to read it again' And then she literally re-reads the last phrase HA.

There are so many sub plots that have no explanation.

This author really could have benefited from an editor prepared to encourage her to cut unnecessary scenes.

Moonbreeze by adrienne woods