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  1. The Healing Real Life Adventures of Emily Rose Garten, My Seahorse Muse by Darlene Williams

    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RBw4xGhv9kA https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GDWQQT5C The Healing Real Life Adventures of Emily Rose Garten: My Seahorse Muse is the first in a series of children’s books written by Darlene Williams, PhD. This book is written in the voice of a ten-year-old girl who is dealing with the death of her grandmother. This book, while fiction, is based on a real-life adventure by the author who experienced a visit by a seahorse while standing on a sandbar. Inside of the […]

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  2. Tiger Claw is such an asshole. Fire Paw might be a dumb idiot, but he’s young yet. Yellow Tail has my heART FOREVER.
    Yellow Tail defending the kits is the most “fuck you because I said so” thing ever.

    But holy hell. The author does not know how to write. Fucker named multiple characters “yada yada Paw” and *still* insists on using “pawed at the ground” and “got to his paws”.
    Fucking hell dude. Writing for elementary or jr high / middle schoolers does not equate to grating phrasing or impulsive conflating.

    Avatar: the Last Airbender was great *and* is also a children’s show.

    Heroes is dogshit *and* was somehow aimed at adults.

    I really hope the author gets lessons and an editor later in the series.
    There are multiple sequels and spin-offs that I saw on Libro.fm right.

    I needed a nice low-stakes bedtime story to allay The Fucking Horrors before sleep. So there’s that.
    The audiobook narrator / voice actor does a startlingly good differentiation of characters.

    #criticism #thisIsNotConstructive #IamBeingBluntAndHarsh #ButAlsoItSucks #sooo
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