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  1. Anyone finds it hard to get into Allegiant? (mild spoilers ahead!)

     

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    It felt like after the previous book/insurgent's ending reveal something explosive should be happening, a head over heels escape - and maybe it is coming later, but the first chapters seem to just hang in place kinda stuck! The second book apparently in some people's eyes had a similar issue but in my opinion that works because the opening kinda moves fast and then it feels appropriate with the characters recovering and figuring things out that it takes a while. But the third book has no interesting start, everyone is just kinda locked in and planning things but as a reader I don't know what and it just doesn't want to go anywhere for a while. I also found the sudden use of additional POV (Tobias) out of place and a bit jarring.

     

    Does it get better soon? Anyone else had similar issues with that book?

  2. I don't know, interestingly the opening episode I particularly disliked. I just felt like every character line was written for most drama without much regards to meaningful characters (would anyone that aggressive ever get a job at a starship in such a high position? probably not...) - or e.g. right in the opening where instead of saying that she walks off a sign, the captain just goes off all important "oh just trust me" which just seemed such another instance of being overly dramatic for no good reason. As a result, the dialogue just felt poorly written to me, I don't know. I really liked set design, visuals and such though, but I watch Star Trek for the crew interactions so I just couldn't get into it.

  3. Is there a place here to ask for (non-writer, not looking for a critique partner) beta readers? Since the advertisement policy is strict, which of course makes a lot of sense, I really don't want to spam into the wrong sections, or any at all if this forum is the entirely wrong place. But if I just included genre + synopsis and no further details / no links / no nothing (I can even leave out the title if you want) for an unreleased project with the request to private message me if interested, is there any category where one could ask for interested beta readers? Or is this simply out of the scope of this forum?

  4. I don't know, I stopped when the romantic subplot came up. It just seemed so unconvincing and pandering, ...

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    ...with a character that is built up as a trusted childhood friend, and then it suddenly falls out of the sky: no development and not even told in the present, but actually "ah by the way that happened in the past as well" in a half sentence - what?! For the two major characters romancing, I would have expected at least some attempt to build this up, but no. (Or did I miss the subtle hints before?)

     

    In addition to that, the whole school section where that is mentioned was quite narration-heavy as well, not very interesting characters like the roommate introduced, few things "happening" in the present. The unfitting romance on top was just somewhat the last straw.

     

    Before that section I actually kind of liked it, but I don't see myself getting through that. Kind of broke the book for me.

  5. I always recommend people to avoid Kindle unless they never want to read on anything else. Sure, there's Kindle for Windows, but what if you want to use another program, or you're on Linux or something?

     

    If you're getting anything that works with a store that uses the EPUB format (pretty much everyone except the Nook thing and Amazon I think) you're having a much better chance of being able to actually read the ebook on your e-ink reader and also in any other place you want. It might have still adobe protection on it but that one is more universally supported, unlike the Kindle format where you're lucky if you can get your hands on the actual file at all, and if you know how there are actually ways to remove it to truly read it everywhere.

  6. Hi!

     

    I have dabbled in writing for a very long time with lengthier short stories or ten page starts of novels but never quite got the hang of it. For some reason, I always thought I could never write a full novel. Last year that all changed when I realized I could, and now I'm already working on my second book. I found this place hoping to eventually find a couple of interested beta readers here.

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