Awakening Delilah was fun! It's a fairly quick read, but I enjoyed it. :)
I wanted Silver Under Nightfall to work for me SO BAD. And like I said, it's not that I didn't like it... it was just that it was *so close* to being basically the perfect catnip for me. I've tried not to be too picky about typos and things like that when I come across them, but I also want to make sure I *keep* noticing them, because I want to catch them when I make them, haha. It does frustrate me, because that sort of thing is the objective issue that a copy editor SHOULD catch and fix, and it bothers me that so many professional publishers have basically gutted the departments that should be doing those things. And it's across publishers - a fave author of mine was published by DAW and moved to Tor, but I noticed it under both publishers. This one was published by Simon and Schuster. So basically any major publishing house is doing a disservice to their authors, imo, because they aren't turning out the most professional product. (Which I also think is zero percent the writer's fault; that is something they SHOULD trust their publisher to do, and I'm angry that they can't trust them to do it!)
I really liked aspects of the worldbuilding, but was frustrated when it felt like it wobbled back and forth between committing to its cool ideas and then kind of backing off from them, or not letting them stand fully. I don't want to project on the writing, but sometimes that's how I'm afraid my own stuff starts to feel, when I've sort of overworked it for too long... like I've turned a story over in my head for years and years, and so all the minor variations in the way I've imagined the scenes and plot points start to contradict each other. I can't say that's the same thing that happened here, of course!
But ha! I actually do really enjoy beta-ing... when I have the time. I've beta'd a few times for people, but often it's gotten to a point where I was holding them back because I just couldn't get things turned around fast enough, which I always feel terrible about.
I definitely do want to read the sequel - the chemistry between the three mains worked really well for me, and I want more of it! I've got my TBR planned out for quite a while, but it'll make it on there eventually. Hopefully without forgetting too many details from the first one!
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I wanted Silver Under Nightfall to work for me SO BAD. And like I said, it's not that I didn't like it... it was just that it was *so close* to being basically the perfect catnip for me. I've tried not to be too picky about typos and things like that when I come across them, but I also want to make sure I *keep* noticing them, because I want to catch them when I make them, haha. It does frustrate me, because that sort of thing is the objective issue that a copy editor SHOULD catch and fix, and it bothers me that so many professional publishers have basically gutted the departments that should be doing those things. And it's across publishers - a fave author of mine was published by DAW and moved to Tor, but I noticed it under both publishers. This one was published by Simon and Schuster. So basically any major publishing house is doing a disservice to their authors, imo, because they aren't turning out the most professional product. (Which I also think is zero percent the writer's fault; that is something they SHOULD trust their publisher to do, and I'm angry that they can't trust them to do it!)
I really liked aspects of the worldbuilding, but was frustrated when it felt like it wobbled back and forth between committing to its cool ideas and then kind of backing off from them, or not letting them stand fully.
I don't want to project on the writing, but sometimes that's how I'm afraid my own stuff starts to feel, when I've sort of overworked it for too long... like I've turned a story over in my head for years and years, and so all the minor variations in the way I've imagined the scenes and plot points start to contradict each other. I can't say that's the same thing that happened here, of course!
But ha! I actually do really enjoy beta-ing... when I have the time. I've beta'd a few times for people, but often it's gotten to a point where I was holding them back because I just couldn't get things turned around fast enough, which I always feel terrible about.
I definitely do want to read the sequel - the chemistry between the three mains worked really well for me, and I want more of it! I've got my TBR planned out for quite a while, but it'll make it on there eventually. Hopefully without forgetting too many details from the first one!