Soma Kar wants to read The Metamorphosis

"Sad to see one of your favorite writers just publishing without passion and with callousness. Karin Slaughter has lost her mojo! She needs to take a year off and come back with something innovative and captivating. She also needs a new editor—it was too long and boring. I only liked the final twist and confrontation.

Publishing the same recycled story with cardboard villains and endless plotholes is not it. Even the prose was weird and felt lazy.
Publishing just because you have to push sales and pump up the TV series/movie is not gonna work for long.

Slaughter is a great writer—I love her and her work, but ever since "Pieces of Her," the quality has been on a major decline. I think the only book I have enjoyed since 2018 is "False Witness.""

"Our Own Unique Affliction has many strengths; there were some nice scenes here, especially the turning of humans was nicely done, and the prose is beautiful, the book has depth. Moses focuses rather on main character Alice Ann and her coping with her vampirism than anything else, more character building and though I liked that, it felt more like an excerpt of something bigger, which can be good in an experimental way. It is an interesting work as a vampire novel. I just really can’t warm up to narration in present tense and along with a nonlinear storyline that confused me a little. I’d definitely like to read something else by this author."

Jeffrey Caston is 52% done with 1722: Up to Chapter 17....

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