Two Book Reviews You Won't Have To Read...

I must be in a good mood.  (Not what my wife says, but the cranky old girl is hard to please anyways...) With not one, but two review requests that I turned down of late, these authors in one way or another didn't fully grasp my rules of engagement. We humans often have blind spots, granted, but "the Rules" are kinda specific. So, rather than embarrass them publicly, I simple declined from writing a full-blown review.

But what I will say, is in the first case, the pace of the novel was quite slow for my taste. Not to be insulting to the wonderful person who wrote it, but it was like watching paint dry. I do mention in my "Rules" that if it doesn't grab my ADD brain, you won't be reviewed favorably - or at all.

The other novel was written by what seemed to be someone in high school, still learning to write. Written in the first person, every page had between five and ten occurrences of the word "I". Obviously not peer-reviewed. If it was, they weren't honest with the author.

Okay, so who just counted all the "I"s in this post? Don't do what I do, do what I say...

So, in a way, they do get reviewed - sorta - kinda -  I figure I should write something about these requests; I just won't do public floggings like other *ahem* reviewers. Be positive I say.

That's 13 "I"s including this one. Man, you'd think I'd learn to write... (oops - does that one count?)


Cheers,

Wolfy