Hell, I would be more upset about being forced into a surprise trip to Jersey in the SAME dimension than she was about being 300-ed into in a different dimension. Next time we see her, she's absolutely very ok about the whole thing, like she just fell asleep in Wales and woke up in New Jersey. He did not mention her royal heritage or equestrian hobby because he was interested to learn how closely these details would match up with the Elora Laiken who was now stranded in his world. He held back nothing that he considered pertinent, not even the information that there had been, in his dimension, an Elora Laiken who died young of pneumonia.

went straight to see how Elora was doing and tell her the news that she was about to get some well deserved answers to a whole lot of questions. Do you want to know how that conversation went? Lol, so would I. Just the narrator saying, 'Dude told Girl this idea, and then Girl said that was a great plan, and then they left to go do the plan.'Įntire scenes would get glossed over in this way, including one that I think any reader would look forward to: the scene where handsome commando man informs Elora that she had traveled to a different dimension, something she didn't know was possible and certainly didn't do on purpose.

I'm not sure that it actually happened, but I could swear entire scenes would pass without any written dialogue. This entire book almost reads like a first pass outline of a book, like the author was sketching out scenes, filling in a line of dialogue or two already in her head so she could include them when she comes back to actually write the book. What a succinct and unemotional way for someone to describe their own grief at the recent loss of a teammate. Intellectually he knew he wasn’t responsible, but his heart wasn’t in complete agreement. Truth told, he had been trying to cover up a little depression since Lan’s death. He could see that, from their point of view, this would appear to be odd behavior. It honestly felt like I was reading a summary of what happened rather than reading about events unfolding. Worse, that narrator felt very detached from the story. There are multiple POVs, but the voice didn't change much between the characters, so it just felt like the same omniscient narrator throughout.

Get comfy, because I have so many feelings that I ended up spending an entire lunch break ranting about this book to the admin at my job, and he only cares about dad books, like, the ones about submarines and, I don't know, World War I trench warfare.įirst and foremost, the writing style is very much not for me. So, keep in mind that my review may be influenced by such a dizzyingly steep let down. A dog who was a very good boy, yes he was! I was ready to give this book 5 stars before I even opened it up.

My familiar stranger by victoria danann