u/GreenNotGrey

{To Charm a Dark Prince Kathryn Ann Kingsley}

I read Serpent’s Bride & Serpent’s Sin last week as my first KAK books and loved them, so did the sensible thing and went and bought another of her series while I’m waiting for Serpent’s Throne to get released.

Is The Iron Crystal series seriously written by the same author? I’m flabbergasted. I made it through the first book in a day, partly because I was racing through it in the hope it’d get better (it didn’t).
I have just started the second book which does actually read a little better but the most ridiculous error in the text has given away who the big bad guy is (page 15 if you’re interested).

I waded through the terrible prose & frequent missing words in book 1, but this just takes the piss. What is the point of carrying on reading if the major reveal has been bundled so early on? Were these books get published without an editor? Or was the editor just drunk/ crap/ hates KAK? How is this the same author?! I honestly don’t understand. Have I ended up with some weird copies of the books? Was AI used to write/ help write this? (Speculating this because of how different this is from her other books).

I write and have done editing work and I am genuinely shocked at how something of this quality was published, I’d be ashamed if this were my work.

I’ve looked at the reviews and no one else seems that bothered, please tell me I’m not alone in being super pissed off? I don’t even know if I’ll bother finishing the series and am thinking about returning the books I haven’t started yet.