Plan on Buying All Seven Books
If you start reading the Will Wight Cradle books.
And if you’re like me, you’ll be upset that book eight is not out yet.
My friend recommended Cradle to me a few years ago. I ignored him. I had a lot of other books on my plate at the time. Then a month or so ago, he told me that the first three books in the series were on sale. So I got them.
The Book Needs Work, But Hopefully the Author will Consider Resurrecting It
I received a free copy of this book and it looked interesting. But this book is really more of a first draft than a final manuscript, no matter that it’s published and sold on Amazon. I have been in several writing groups for years and that experience combined with my own writing efforts makes me think that this story needs more work before it’s ready to be read.
Some of the problems I had with it include:
It’s written in first-person with mostly I-subject sentences. In other words, most of the sentences read:
When not to read
“A book’s alright when the weather’s foul and there’s nothing else to do, but why sit and read when the wind is calling your name?”
— Mercedes Lackey, By the Sword