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DESTINED BOOK ONE: FATE

Couldn’t finish it

Editor: Linda Schoales
February 26, 2009

“Destined Book One: Fate” is a fantasy novel set on an island that has been hit by a terrible storm.  Tylor manages to sleep through the destruction and wakes to find his father missing.  He and his friend Joel discover that the storm only affected the area around their village.  His father has died in the prologue, fighting some kind of assassin who uses his Aura, which sounds a lot like a glowing, purple version of the Force. 

I found this story a hard read and stopped after chapter 2, or about 16,000 words.  The writing is very rough, full of grammatical mistakes, awkward wording, and misused punctuation.  Things are over-described, conversations are described instead of written as dialog, and there are paragraphs of infodump scattered throughout. 

I’m afraid I can’t think of anything else to say about this story.  It may get better, but I won’t be reading any further.

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