Novella: Novel and Fiction

I began reading a book that had (470 ?) chapters. I don’t mind the length of the book, but a chapter should be longer than a page and a half. The basic story is interesting, and there’s grammar and spelling are perfect, but there’s so much superfluous and repetitive dialog and description that it becomes boring. Everybody wants to kill everyone else. This book could use a decent proof reader. Character names change for a few chapters, suggesting that chapters weren’t written sequentially, and the final writing renamed characters. Just missed a few chapters. But the reader has to figure out Who is who so that the plot makes some sense. There are lots of family members in all of the families. A family tree design would help the readers a lot, especially those that put down a book for a day or two. And the repetition…every woman in the book makes a fist so tight that her fingernails draw blood. There’s more, but you get the idea. The geography…I know the author is from another country, but if I wrote a book that described a city park in Beijing that had giant redwoods, you’d think I hadn’t done my homework. Redwoods don’t grow on the east coast. They’re west coast trees. And the Appalachian mountains are pretty short. The highest peak is just over 6,600 ft. And then there’s poor Jeremiah. He never eats, he never sleeps, heck, he never even takes a shower. Is he a robot? I finally gave up after 390+ chapters.

The app has got interesting stories but, and this is a huge but, you are going to pay significantly more for a simple book at this app than you would pay for a hard cover novel at any bookstore, approximately 3 to 4x more. You read that right. Also, a normal book is estimated at 20-25 lines per page and 15 words per line. These books are 20-lines per page and 5-words per line. So that explains some of the 100s of chapters. And each chapter is only, on average, 15 pages. Page costs very greatly as well from 30-50 coins per page. To check it out I spent $19 for 1000 coins and it let me read 6 chapters for free then 29 chapters before I ran out of coins. The book has 263 chapters so I would have to spend $148 in $19 increments or $99 approximately if I bought the bigger bundle and paid for all chapters at one time. Do not let the book auto charge each chapter, pay per chapter so you can track for yourself. It’s definitely not worth the money.

I love the ability to have many ways that you can read this. I like I don’t mind watching commercials to continue my reading to the point where I exceed watching the commercials then I have other things I can do to obtain enough points to continue reading until I get to the point where I do pay, and it’s not a lot of money like some apps require but it’s not stressful if you understand what I mean