coral reviewed The Black Door by Velvet
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1 star
This might actually be worse than Shades of Grey. There’s a lot of telling-not-showing and basic phrasing issues that an editor should have caught; the exposition is sloppy; the protagonist doesn’t garner a lot of sympathy with her childishness; and (yeah, I am always going to comment on this) there’s absolutely no discussion of consent. On top of that, the narrator for the audiobook is a bad fit for this story, reading it with the tone of a children’s book and mispronouncing some pretty important words.
I see this author has other books out. Maybe this was practice?