shippychaos reviewed Read Between the Lines by Rachel Lacey
Review of 'Read Between the Lines' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
I have been looking forward to reading this book for months—my first read from this author. The premise reminds me a lot of Paper Love by Jae, and I really enjoy stories involving mistaken identity and romance.
Unfortunately, Read Between The Lines was incredibly clunky to read, and the simplistic writing choices were made even more apparent by Abby Craden’s narration (though her voice did earn this book an extra .75 stars).
An area very much in need of improvement for this author is writing dialogue.
Almost every two person conversation went like this:
“Blah blah blah,” Jane said.
“Blah blah blah,” Rosie said.
“Blah blah blah,” Jane said as she adjusted her skirt.
“Blah blah blah,” Rosie said.
It was nearly unbearable to listen to this repetitiveness in audiobook format, and since I also own the ebook, I searched for instances of “Rosie said.” It was repeated over 200 …
I have been looking forward to reading this book for months—my first read from this author. The premise reminds me a lot of Paper Love by Jae, and I really enjoy stories involving mistaken identity and romance.
Unfortunately, Read Between The Lines was incredibly clunky to read, and the simplistic writing choices were made even more apparent by Abby Craden’s narration (though her voice did earn this book an extra .75 stars).
An area very much in need of improvement for this author is writing dialogue.
Almost every two person conversation went like this:
“Blah blah blah,” Jane said.
“Blah blah blah,” Rosie said.
“Blah blah blah,” Jane said as she adjusted her skirt.
“Blah blah blah,” Rosie said.
It was nearly unbearable to listen to this repetitiveness in audiobook format, and since I also own the ebook, I searched for instances of “Rosie said.” It was repeated over 200 times, and that does not include what all the other characters “said.”
Though there is a lot of room for improvement in writing dialogue here, the creativity of the storyline and the interesting situations the characters found themselves in did make me hopeful for other books from this author.
