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Originally Posted by crich70
A historical fiction though has to have a lot more detail to help us relate to the story.
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Absolutely, however, that 500+ pages trad pub book 1 of a trilogy that I couldn't finish was historical fiction. When you get various bits of background repeated several times throughout, nearly word for word (I'm talking about half a page worth each time) it just becomes irritating padding. Either the publishers/author were a tad greedy (hey, how about we stretch this to a trilogy instead of having just one book) or they assumed that readers are too stupid to remember what was explained previously
I guess it could just be sloppy editing but the repeats were so obvious that I really doubt it.
I really couldn't care less how long or short a book is as long as I enjoy it
I read mostly what is categorised as literary fiction and the majority of my books are under 300 pages; when I do read stuff from other genres, everything seems to be 500 pages or thereabout.