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A review by booking_along
Breach of Peace by Daniel B. Greene
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.5
2.5 ⭐️
the idea was there and if everything would have been build up and out and filled in more this could have been fantastic.
the writing was a bit clunky and filled with often used phrases BUT if the rest would have been done better that could have worked as an easy to read story.
honestly the biggest issue with this was that it was a novella.
the characters didn’t have the time to be fleshed out and made interesting enough to want to care about them, the world building was thrown in but unfinished and to clunky feeling while at the same time just not giving enough to really understand what could and couldn’t be happening.
as an introduction to something larger - this would work. as a beginning and first part of something? it didn’t really work as a good hook.
a inspector team working on a dark murder mystery with fantastic element in a fantasy setting is all well and good and can be done fantastic even without the best lyrical or well throughout writing - but there has to be something given to make the reader want to come back and be interested in more.
either the characters have to be so well done that i want to know what else the author can create or the world has to be so utterly intriguing that i can’t wait to get back to it, or the fantastical elements have to draw me in…. something has to be the hook.
this novella tried to hook too many things at once and just threw those lines in there and didn’t use a net for it (let’s just stick with the fishing thing i am apparently going with here!) but non of the hooks had bait and all were thrown out too far from each other to really work together.
there are interesting characters here but it’s too short to make it really interesting with them.
the world could be interesting buht we just get the bare minimum to work with here.
and the fantasy moments oh well those are basically skimped and thrown in as a bit of seasoning but too little too late.
all in all it’s okay.
it’s not bad but it’s not great.
it could have been 100 or so pages more? build just one thing out more, focus in on something and make the reader really get into it and make that ending work? that would have done the trick for me.
this isn’t bad at all.
but it reads like something not quiet competed yet.
the idea was there and if everything would have been build up and out and filled in more this could have been fantastic.
the writing was a bit clunky and filled with often used phrases BUT if the rest would have been done better that could have worked as an easy to read story.
honestly the biggest issue with this was that it was a novella.
the characters didn’t have the time to be fleshed out and made interesting enough to want to care about them, the world building was thrown in but unfinished and to clunky feeling while at the same time just not giving enough to really understand what could and couldn’t be happening.
as an introduction to something larger - this would work. as a beginning and first part of something? it didn’t really work as a good hook.
a inspector team working on a dark murder mystery with fantastic element in a fantasy setting is all well and good and can be done fantastic even without the best lyrical or well throughout writing - but there has to be something given to make the reader want to come back and be interested in more.
either the characters have to be so well done that i want to know what else the author can create or the world has to be so utterly intriguing that i can’t wait to get back to it, or the fantastical elements have to draw me in…. something has to be the hook.
this novella tried to hook too many things at once and just threw those lines in there and didn’t use a net for it (let’s just stick with the fishing thing i am apparently going with here!) but non of the hooks had bait and all were thrown out too far from each other to really work together.
there are interesting characters here but it’s too short to make it really interesting with them.
the world could be interesting buht we just get the bare minimum to work with here.
and the fantasy moments oh well those are basically skimped and thrown in as a bit of seasoning but too little too late.
all in all it’s okay.
it’s not bad but it’s not great.
it could have been 100 or so pages more? build just one thing out more, focus in on something and make the reader really get into it and make that ending work? that would have done the trick for me.
this isn’t bad at all.
but it reads like something not quiet competed yet.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail