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Hey all,
I've got a question for those of you who are reading Advent of Eternity. I just got a really bad review on RR, and I'm trying to figure out if what they said was actually true or not so I can assess if I'm writing poorly.
Does the novel read well? The review said the characters were all flat, their motivations were uninteresting, and there's no motive or reasoning for anything. They also said I always just said what people were feeling instead of showing it and that everything feels very arbitrary or railroaded.
In their words, "overall, this fiction is pretty bad. It doesn't meet up to my standards of good, evocative writing, and there is a critical lack of characterization, all the characters feel bland, unemotive, and stiff. The author, after the prologue (only good chapter in the novel) just throws us into the story and totally fails at providing context to slowly enlighten the reader (meaning, none at all or delivered in a confusing, indecipherable way). The characters are not relatable, and at this point, I'm dropping the story because I don't feel like I can root for the characters, nor do I feel like reading more bland writing."
Does any of that wring true, and is Advent significantly worse than my other work? I need to fix it if it is, but I just can't really tell since I'm the one writing it, so I'm hoping for some outside perspectives.
Cheers guys,
Actus