Mel Todd
Auteur de My Luck
Séries
Œuvres de Mel Todd
Balanced Luck 6 exemplaires
Words Are Magic: A collection of short stories 2 exemplaires
Twisted Luck Bundled Set: Books 1-3 2 exemplaires
Puppet Master 1 exemplaire
Kaylid Chronicles Novella 01 - New Games 1 exemplaire
Kaylid Chronicles Novella 04 - Trust 1 exemplaire
Kaylid Chronicles Novella 02 - Home Alone — Auteur — 1 exemplaire
Vengeance (Mage Hunter) 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Lieu de naissance
- California, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- California, USA
Georgia, USA - Courte biographie
- Currently residing in Georgia with three cats - who tolerate her - she writes her own version of Urban Science Fiction. If you're looking for science, aliens, invasions, explosions, and maybe a touch of magic in some series, you've found the right author.
She fully admits to being weird, after all she writes about aliens and knows how to milk goats. If you want to talk books, she'll talk all day long, but admits she hasn't had time to watch much TV in the last three years, the price of a writing addiction.
Membres
Critiques
I loved the first one, enjoyed the second one but this one was just bad.
There is no structure to the story, it's incredibly repetitive, and the whole climax is a horrible mess.
In regards to structure, this is actually something I enjoyed about the first two books. I couldn't predict the classic story beats which usually happen like clockwork in most books. But the pacing worked really well regardless. There always was some sense of progress and some kind of immediate conflict. In this one, we are basically stuck throughout the entire book.
It almost seems like, now that the author is done with the worldbuilding foundations, she doesn't know what to do. It kind of feels like bad second book syndrome. (But it is the third one, I know.)
The biggest problem is the classic issue of how do you create tense situations if your MC is too powerful already. Sadly the author has no answer. So we ended up with a mix of tstl, tstl, tstl, and a few outright contradictions of common sense and science.
The TSTL is really bad. And it came out of nowhere. The MC was a bit obtuse at times in earlier books but I can accept that especially considering how stressful her situation always is. In this one, her IQ suddenly drops to room temperature on the authors' whim.
If you mix your magic with regular science you can do literally anything with your magic. But you can NOT adjust physics the same way. If it is a planned change that intertwines with the magic it can sometimes work if done carefully. But that is not what happens in this book. The author constantly just makes shit up on the spot as an excuse for whatever she wants to happen. She does this with all aspects of the story but it hurts particularly badly around scientific stuff.
A few questionable things about common sense already popped up mostly in the second book but those were all minor and easy to ignore. Not so in this one.
I very much feel like this book has been written top to bottom in one go. No revisiting of earlier writing or reworking scenes that didn't quite work at all. Maybe there was some extremely tight deadline involved?
But it doesn't seem like the editing suffered in a similar manner. It is still spotty just as in the first two books but it didn't get worse.
While I am somewhat mad at a lot of messed-up details I frankly am not interested in how the story will progress either.
Considering how strong the main cast is it is quite sad how little the author did with it all. I can see what she is trying to do and I would enjoy that, I am sure, but the execution is just really bad.
… (plus d'informations)
There is no structure to the story, it's incredibly repetitive, and the whole climax is a horrible mess.
In regards to structure, this is actually something I enjoyed about the first two books. I couldn't predict the classic story beats which usually happen like clockwork in most books. But the pacing worked really well regardless. There always was some sense of progress and some kind of immediate conflict. In this one, we are basically stuck throughout the entire book.
It almost seems like, now that the author is done with the worldbuilding foundations, she doesn't know what to do. It kind of feels like bad second book syndrome. (But it is the third one, I know.)
The biggest problem is the classic issue of how do you create tense situations if your MC is too powerful already. Sadly the author has no answer. So we ended up with a mix of tstl, tstl, tstl, and a few outright contradictions of common sense and science.
The TSTL is really bad. And it came out of nowhere. The MC was a bit obtuse at times in earlier books but I can accept that especially considering how stressful her situation always is. In this one, her IQ suddenly drops to room temperature on the authors' whim.
If you mix your magic with regular science you can do literally anything with your magic. But you can NOT adjust physics the same way. If it is a planned change that intertwines with the magic it can sometimes work if done carefully. But that is not what happens in this book. The author constantly just makes shit up on the spot as an excuse for whatever she wants to happen. She does this with all aspects of the story but it hurts particularly badly around scientific stuff.
A few questionable things about common sense already popped up mostly in the second book but those were all minor and easy to ignore. Not so in this one.
I very much feel like this book has been written top to bottom in one go. No revisiting of earlier writing or reworking scenes that didn't quite work at all. Maybe there was some extremely tight deadline involved?
But it doesn't seem like the editing suffered in a similar manner. It is still spotty just as in the first two books but it didn't get worse.
While I am somewhat mad at a lot of messed-up details I frankly am not interested in how the story will progress either.
Considering how strong the main cast is it is quite sad how little the author did with it all. I can see what she is trying to do and I would enjoy that, I am sure, but the execution is just really bad.
… (plus d'informations)
My Luck is an urban fantasy set in a timeline in which young adults often begin to manifest magical powers. Cori, a.k.a. Catastrophe Cori, is a young woman preparing to be an EMT. Cori does not seem to have ordinary magical powers but frequently stumbles across the dead and dying. It is a quirk that comes in handy when searching for victims at an accident scene. Cori is a likable heroine, and Mel Todd has worked out plausible rules for using magic. Style and plotting could be better.
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 29
- Membres
- 213
- Popularité
- #104,444
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 13
- ISBN
- 14
The action continues and character development is getting stronger. Problems with the system is really messed up. I can hardly wait for the next one. I hope the author has some solutions to problems in the next book.