5/7/2023 0 Comments Raw belle aurora book 2Other examples of structure that I found jarring included interjecting a POV from a random character toward the end so we can see the “whole side” of the story or the intentional use of tense switches (although there are unintentional switches). It’s used a few times throughout the story, and it is always a lie which, of course, reduces emotional impact. This isn’t a matter of an unreliable narrator but dramatic da da duh moment to make the reader generate all those feels. Twitch, the hero, says that his pursuit of Lexi was meant to be fun. She tells the reader that she never sees this boy again. The story opens with the heroine as an eight year old helping a battered neighbor boy. I felt like there was some lazy storytelling occurring throughout the book. I felt a little sick to my stomach the entire time I read it and when I got to the ending, which comes upon the reader abruptly, I was sufficiently emotionally un-engaged that I didn’t really care about the “shocking” ending. Beyond the writing technical issues, however, was the lack of tenderness in this story. This was much better written but suffered from a number of technical problems such as verb tense issues within the same sentence, some strange word choices, and inconsistency. I tried Willing Captive but it was a confusing melange of words. On the plus side, this is the first complete Aurora book I’ve finished.
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