9) Poor editing
Mistakes abound in this series. Here's a few:
- A sentence gets cut off and continued on the next line down. L
ike this.
- Periods without being spaced apart from the start of another sentence. "...into the woods.Peter decided not to..."
- Some other lines that spell check didn't catch and never did the author "And if that's the case, you have another think coming!" and "Return of the book, now!"
10) .......
Ok, I'm too tired to label these anymore, so here's a few more things that sucked in this series:
- Minnie and Mickey mouse are "silent" characters in the book who can't talk and use expressions to describe how they feel. (like the mascots in Disney World I get it) But then you have Pluto who is described as a real dog....huh?
- The moment Finn realizes his mom is "cursed" is when she uses the cuss word "Darn" in a sentence. Yes, the book establishes that his mother would never use such language as "darn"
- The SAME EXACT scene happens three times in the books to different villains.
1) Villain threatens Finn
2) Finn's had enough of the villain so he runs up and chokes them.
3) Villain panics and flees.
This happened to Malificiant, the Evil Queen and Cruella DeVille which leads me to believe the author has some unnerving thoughts on how to deal with bad woman.
- When under an evil spell, the people are described as wearing green contacts. In a later book though, its described as their eyes turning green. When the author found out about his mistake he later explained that they wear green contacts as first until their eyes turn green and then take the contacts out......ok....idiot, sure.
- This should have been under "bad character development" but the Bully at one point gets caught trying to kill one of the Keepers in their sleep. When the Keeper suddenly wakes up, the bully flees. Yet in a later book, the bully kills a hyena and is sad that he did it. Leading us to believe that this kid, who had no remorse for trying to kill a human being would feel different if it was an animal. (sigh)
- Another example of poor writing: 2 girls battle a man will a club. How they take him down is as he confronts them, one girl coughs "On three" then pats her pants leg 3 times to give the signal. All this is done right in front of the guy. The 2 girls "surprise" him with there sudden bare handed attack on a man twice their age and overpower him. Yep, the writing is that bad.
- Another example is 4 pages of dialogue where 2 boys get caught snooping around, so they have to go into this long winded excuse of how they got there, while we later find out the entire time that their opponents already know who they are and are their to stop them. Leading the reader to wonder why we had to have the 4 page scene to begin with.
- Another situation where the kids get caught, they come up with a "brilliant" excuse of playing "hide and seek" the only problem with that is they're caught in a restricted area. Good thing the people they're talking to are complete idiots and buy the cover story without further questions. (slap to the forehead)
- Another kid makes a noise while hiding and has his sneakers exposed from his hiding place. The people investigating the noise open the door, see his shoes and comment on how someone must have left them in here thinking this was "lost and found" they shut the door and go back to their business where were left wondering how stupid the author must be to think this makes any sense!
- One character gets so mad, Pearson describes him as "his vein doing the macarena" WTF Pearson, wtf.
- Book 6 ends on a cliffhanger, but Book 7 takes place years later explaining after the end of 6 everything ended up being "just fine"
- Another hilariously bad example of writing is when 2 boys are trapped by Jafar and the conversation goes like this:
Finn" Ever heard of the band the Byrds?
Jafar: No.
Finn: Really? They're really popular. They have a song called "Turn, Turn, Turn" have you heard of it?
Jafar: No.
(2 more exchanges between characters to establish Jafar doesn't listen to classic rock.)
Finn: Why it's such a classic I bet they played it on a Turn Table!
(More dialogue on what a turn table is....isn't this funny folks?!)
Finn: You know, the kind you have to put on the floor?
Anyway, what this is leading up to is Finn trying to tell the other boy that Jafar is standing over a trap door and they can "turn the tables" on him by pulling a lever sending him to his doom.
Horrible HORRIBLE writing! Like a 3rd grader had to write a paper and this is the best they could come up with.
Don't waste your time as I did on this series. It's GARBAGE through and through. Biggest waste of money I've ever had! I'll be regretting this purchase for years to come....
Ok, I'm done.
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