Book Diary: The Cursed Land

 


Book: The Cursed Land
Author:Teri Mclaren
Pages: 290
Hard Core Scale: 1/4
Normal Scale: 3/10
Publish Date:1995
About: A dipshit destroys an ancient sacred tree cursing everything and then another dipshit plots to steal the magical acorn that would make everything better.


Review: I have not read a book this terrible in a long time. Teri is a fellow professor of literature of the Kentucky School? SHAMEFUL display.  Marked Bibilos Terribles Excommunicado Cannot writeo. I could barely read this thing: Lack of description, repeating sentence structure, constant telling over showing, weak transitions with dependency upon temporal transitions, lack of tags, indentation for speakers, run on sentences, weird and pointless metaphoric descriptions, lack of follow reactions to complete scenes, scene skipping, time wasting elements that served no purpose to the text, Scoobey doo running around, lack of proper semicolon use. On top of that the story auto resolves destroying all sense of any conflict. I tried restarting several times and just took it whole thing in the quick step.  It has nothing to do with Magic the Gathering outside some barely mentioned planeswalkers and no hold or sway on anything of the domains. It is very much its own isolated fantasy adventure on its own isolated plane. I love Margaret Weis’s “exciting, action-packed. It captures the magic” smeared on the front, when it is both not action packed and captures nothing of magic.   

 

 


Book Cover by John Bolton, Copy Right Harper Prism and Wizards of the Coast 1995.

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