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Engarde!!!! The Reading Duel challenge
Carter-Orange:
On Chapter 28 now, wow I'm flying through!
OK, Nick has just been drugged and tricked into marrying Katie who is a gold digging whore. Lance found out he's not the father and Amanda is left alone on New Years Eve with a crying baby.
Nice and easy to understand and I have an idea of how the characters look in my head. But sometimes things happen without the reader getting to know why. Could do with a bit of filler so that the reader can really get into what's happening. If that makes sense!
FrickingKaos:
I'm actually reading it for myself and I can see what you mean about filler. I think I didn't want to bore anyone by using too much in the story as I have two prequels to elaborate on Nick and Amanda's past...Nick's childhood etc. Thanks for pointing things out for me!
Sapphire:
I'll read m ore tonight. Hopefully finish. Off to work soon so I can't right now. Would much rather be home reading and working on Home.
Carter-Orange:
Up to Chapter 36 now. I would've liked to have read more about Brian and Amanda's relationship instead of one brief date and then two weeks later he's crying because she dumped him. I also think that the baby would take up more of her time and therefore should be included more, rather than always being with Brian. Babies take up a lot of time, believe me (and I'm glad mine are old enough that I don't have to constantly entertain them, lol).
mare:
Since it's 3,000 degrees outside and i'm being a mole man, I was able to really spend some time reading today and have now read up to chapter 20 of October Road.
Alex and Krystle have now become a couple. I was glad it took up to chapter 17 for that to happen because we really got a chance to see her hesitancy about getting involved with him again after all these years. Now that I have some back story on Krystle, I don't find her as annoying as I did before. I am starting to see she's a very insecure person who maybe doesn't feel like she deserves happiness. She also tends to jump to conclusions and ends up constantly apologizing for it. Alex is very apologetic as well. In fact, I haven't gotten through a chapter yet where one of them doesn't apologize for something they have said or done a multitude of times.
Howie has also managed to make a little cameo as the Principal of the school that Krystle's son attends. Brian is the father. I am curious to see if Nick and Kevin make an appearance as well. It was important for me that the guys were in this so I was glad to see them show up.
Alex also confronts the girlfriend he left in this set of chapters which was nice because it slowly gets rid of all the baggage the two of them had previously so they can really just focus on each other.
I feel like i'm beginning to know them better.
It still is a bit slow paced and I figured out why for me anyway, it's just too much information in the dialogue. Little things that probably could be left to the reader's imagination is spelled out in the dialogue. I do the same too though. I am a dialogue junkie and sometimes it's hard to tell when to stop. When it becomes too much like just over hearing something important to eavesdropping on a very boring conversation. It's a fine line and the trick is balancing the two. So, I do find myself at times skimming through parts of the dialogue sections.
I am curious to see how this relationship evolves and what kind of drama unfolds along the way. I would imagine i'm in for some kind of drama since i'm only half way through. LOL
:)
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