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I think the annoyance factor has finally overtaken the entertainment factor. DNF @ 58% This disappoints me because I think with some more work this could have been really good.

I have a lot of mixed feelings about this one. So, I'll bottom-line it first for those that don't want to read the particulars.

In general I found this a fairly entertaining YA Fantasy, with a protagonist that was reasonably likable. The premise is a mix of very imaginative and fairly original ideas along with things reminiscent of, and done better in, Harry Potter.

The story is actually pretty good, although flawed. Writing has some issues, but it kept my interest for awhile anyway, and has imaginative, interesting, and entertaining elements.

I also must say, in spite of what some seem to think, including apparently the author, this story is not Steampunk.

Unfortunately this book also contains many glaring editing errors. It shows it was originally published in 2012. I bought my copy (for free) in 2015. I am surprised that the Kindle version has not (yet) been corrected to remove these obvious editing problems in all this time. I checked before writing this, no updated Kindle version is available.

However, this book is free for the Kindle version. If it sounds interesting to you, and you can tolerate some editing issues without wanting to poke your eyes out, I advise giving this a try and seeing for yourself. It's got something, it just could have used a bit more work and polish to bring it up to snuff.

What I liked:

MC is tough, sassy, and it gets her in trouble. She's not over powerful at the start. Her mouth gets her in trouble. Still, she doesn't whimp out. A couple of times she steps right in, not very wisely, but I still liked her for it. She tells jerkwad adults off with no fear, even one with authority. Which is probably unwise, but still I liked her for it.

The concept of magically traveling through doorways.

The MCs mysterious dreams, that appear to not really be dreams.

I really liked her group of friends, and how they each had their own personalities. I like how her friend Val annoyed Chloe, but then Chloe started to see a bigger picture and grew more tolerant of Val.

What I didn't like:

Lack of explanations. Repeatedly being told about her "brokenness" and being bad at relationships with no real explanation or justification shown for it.

Her contrariness regarding the Love Interest. She likes him, he likes her, she doesn't want to be in a relationship, yadda yadda. Fine. Then they have sweet moments, clearly she likes him, then poof she goes all contrary on him for no reason. I like that there isn't insta-love, but sheesh. I began to wonder what he sees in her, she's like psycho around him. And her back and forth about it in her own head gets really tiresome.

She also makes judgements about him, and regarding her, simply based on their preferred fashion choices. Which annoyed me. And her mentioning being "messed up" for which we're never shown any real reason for.

'I had a hard time imagining why he seemed interested in talking to someone as messed up as me. I didn’t exactly see a future with Mr. Wonderful walking around town with me in my combat boots, hoodie and dark eyeliner.'

The "Steampunk" devices. This is set in our present day. This seems cobbled in perhaps to appeal to Steampunk fans, but this is not at all Steampunk. It just makes this story seem a mish mash of things that don't really fit or make much sense.

Vague passage of time, and contradictions. Here's one example:

The MC, Chloe, is at her grandmother's house with her cousin. Her cousin is going out and her grandmother says, "Make sure you're home for dinner."

Chloe and her grandmother talk a bit then start making dinner (the cousin isn't yet home, no mention of time). Then, "When the stir fry was finished we sat at the table, ate and reminisced about my parents."

Didn't wait to eat for the cousin, who was supposed to be home for dinner. No mention that her cousin was perhaps late and it was past dinner time.

'I heard the front door open having completely forgotten about my cousin. She walked into the kitchen, stopped a moment to stare at us and then she walked over grabbed a bit of food from the bowl and nibbled on it.

“How was your night dear?” Gran asked her.'

So, either the cousin was back at dinner time, but they didn't bother to wait for her - which no one mentions, or she was late - which no one mentions - and her grandmother asks how her "night" was, as if she'd been out for the evening, yet she was supposed to be home at dinner time and they were just then eating dinner.

This makes no sense.

There's a lot of telling rather than showing. And the story really suffers for it.

Editing errors.

There are numerous missing commas, I didn't even bother to note them. At least three times the word "passed" is used when "past" is meant. I stopped counting the number of instances a question mark was used at the end of a statement and obviously not a question after five occurrences.


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The Doorknob Society The Doorknob Society Series Book 1 eBook MJ Fletcher Reviews

The Doorknob Society is a strong first effort in Mr. Fletcher's series. Easily dismissed as a rip-off of Harry Potter, the characters are fun and relatable while the story itself is different enough from Harry and Hogwarts to stand on its own. Though written in the first person, Mr. Fletcher does a good job of making it work.

The story centers on Chloe the teenage daughter of a traveling magician. Her mother disappeared some time ago for no apparent reason. Chloe soon learns that her family has certain magical abilities and has ties to a secret magical society and its feeder school(The Paladin Academy), which is being eaten away by politics and rivalry. She and her band of friends find themselves in danger at almost every turn. The action is well-written and the best part of the book.

My favorite part is Chloe being torn between the "perfect" boyfriend and the bad boy who clearly has an interest in her and may not be so "bad" after all.

What hurts the book is a general lack of editing and the constant repetition of "my mother left/abandoned/disappeared on me." In fact, those sections are so heavy handed that it gives away the big reveal long before it happens.

Chloe also repeatedly states she is broken without really showing her doing things that might indicate a troubled young woman. She and her father have a great relationship, she does well at school and makes friends easily. That doesn't give me an impression of a girl trying to fit in.

I would give the book 4 stars for premise and 3 stars for editing issues. But it did interest me enough to want to continue reading the series which is all that really counts.
This was a fun read.... BUT.... the author needs an editor and a proofreader who know standard English grammar and punctuation. Because of several really weird phrases, I'm thinking the author is a non-native English speaker (I mean, a native speaker just would not say things that way), and that this may be a translated work (in which case, the translator should be more careful, or else more aware of English usage). That said, the poor punctuation often required a second of third reading of certain sentences (many many of them), to be sure what was going on. (Folks, you cannot simply string together 6 sentences with no punctuation, or only a haphazard comma here and there - punctuation tells us where to breathe, where to pause).
After a while, there were just too many sudden super-cures for issues. I did stick with the book - once I noticed that I had already endured over half, I figured I would stay around to the end. You know, in this kind of book that the heroine and all of her buddies will come through just fine and live happily ever after, so it was just a matter of seeing what had happened there is where my rating fell what ultmately happened to her father, and what happened to her mother? After having stuck it out through the entire book, I was really annoyed to see that, to find out what comes next, I am supposed to shell out for the next poorly-edited book with bad grammar and haphazard punctuation. To put in the heroine's lingo (had she been more versed in current English usage), that is so not going to happen!
I think the annoyance factor has finally overtaken the entertainment factor. DNF @ 58% This disappoints me because I think with some more work this could have been really good.

I have a lot of mixed feelings about this one. So, I'll bottom-line it first for those that don't want to read the particulars.

In general I found this a fairly entertaining YA Fantasy, with a protagonist that was reasonably likable. The premise is a mix of very imaginative and fairly original ideas along with things reminiscent of, and done better in, Harry Potter.

The story is actually pretty good, although flawed. Writing has some issues, but it kept my interest for awhile anyway, and has imaginative, interesting, and entertaining elements.

I also must say, in spite of what some seem to think, including apparently the author, this story is not Steampunk.

Unfortunately this book also contains many glaring editing errors. It shows it was originally published in 2012. I bought my copy (for free) in 2015. I am surprised that the version has not (yet) been corrected to remove these obvious editing problems in all this time. I checked before writing this, no updated version is available.

However, this book is free for the version. If it sounds interesting to you, and you can tolerate some editing issues without wanting to poke your eyes out, I advise giving this a try and seeing for yourself. It's got something, it just could have used a bit more work and polish to bring it up to snuff.

What I liked

MC is tough, sassy, and it gets her in trouble. She's not over powerful at the start. Her mouth gets her in trouble. Still, she doesn't whimp out. A couple of times she steps right in, not very wisely, but I still liked her for it. She tells jerkwad adults off with no fear, even one with authority. Which is probably unwise, but still I liked her for it.

The concept of magically traveling through doorways.

The MCs mysterious dreams, that appear to not really be dreams.

I really liked her group of friends, and how they each had their own personalities. I like how her friend Val annoyed Chloe, but then Chloe started to see a bigger picture and grew more tolerant of Val.

What I didn't like

Lack of explanations. Repeatedly being told about her "brokenness" and being bad at relationships with no real explanation or justification shown for it.

Her contrariness regarding the Love Interest. She likes him, he likes her, she doesn't want to be in a relationship, yadda yadda. Fine. Then they have sweet moments, clearly she likes him, then poof she goes all contrary on him for no reason. I like that there isn't insta-love, but sheesh. I began to wonder what he sees in her, she's like psycho around him. And her back and forth about it in her own head gets really tiresome.

She also makes judgements about him, and regarding her, simply based on their preferred fashion choices. Which annoyed me. And her mentioning being "messed up" for which we're never shown any real reason for.

'I had a hard time imagining why he seemed interested in talking to someone as messed up as me. I didn’t exactly see a future with Mr. Wonderful walking around town with me in my combat boots, hoodie and dark eyeliner.'

The "Steampunk" devices. This is set in our present day. This seems cobbled in perhaps to appeal to Steampunk fans, but this is not at all Steampunk. It just makes this story seem a mish mash of things that don't really fit or make much sense.

Vague passage of time, and contradictions. Here's one example

The MC, Chloe, is at her grandmother's house with her cousin. Her cousin is going out and her grandmother says, "Make sure you're home for dinner."

Chloe and her grandmother talk a bit then start making dinner (the cousin isn't yet home, no mention of time). Then, "When the stir fry was finished we sat at the table, ate and reminisced about my parents."

Didn't wait to eat for the cousin, who was supposed to be home for dinner. No mention that her cousin was perhaps late and it was past dinner time.

'I heard the front door open having completely forgotten about my cousin. She walked into the kitchen, stopped a moment to stare at us and then she walked over grabbed a bit of food from the bowl and nibbled on it.

“How was your night dear?” Gran asked her.'

So, either the cousin was back at dinner time, but they didn't bother to wait for her - which no one mentions, or she was late - which no one mentions - and her grandmother asks how her "night" was, as if she'd been out for the evening, yet she was supposed to be home at dinner time and they were just then eating dinner.

This makes no sense.

There's a lot of telling rather than showing. And the story really suffers for it.

Editing errors.

There are numerous missing commas, I didn't even bother to note them. At least three times the word "passed" is used when "past" is meant. I stopped counting the number of instances a question mark was used at the end of a statement and obviously not a question after five occurrences.