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Originally Posted by Yapyap
"Invitation to Die" by Helen Smith, picked up relatively cheaply on Amazon recently, but... well, at least I didn't pay a fortune for it, because not only do I have a hard time getting into it, I just don't feel it's particularly well written.
I'm over 50% and still feel a vague curiosity about the "whodunnit" part, so I expect I'll struggle onwards with it and finish it, but it's feeling a lot like a chore - especially as I picked up the hardback of Jonathan Stroud's latest book, Lockwood & Co: The Screaming Staircase, at the post office yesterday and now it's sitting here, taunting me.
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Life's too short, and the world has way too many
good books to waste time on poorly written books. Every genre has some crappy books, and in these days when every barely literate person can self-publish, I strongly recommend just putting down the bad book. And even going so far as to ask Amazon for your money back. (And they'll generally do it if you've bought the book recently.)