u/Pop-Alarming

I’ve been reading RKs books for a minute now and I do enjoy her books but I’ve recently been struggling with her writing. I don’t reread books so I’d appreciate some input from people who do. Do you think her writing has gotten worse? I’m reading tempting venom and constantly having to put the book down because the sentence structure is giving me an actual headache to read. This isn’t a criticism of character or plot writing purely her technical skill. I know she gets these books out fast and I’ve never wanted them to be George R Martin levels of skill but these used to be fun quick easy reads and now I’m struggling to read them because it’s so poorly worded. I’m wondering if maybe she got a new editor or maybe this is the usual or maybe I just need a reading break.

Eg. In this scene from chapter 6 there’s too many interruptions, corrections, discourse markers, parentheticals, fragments, and syntactic pivots packed into too little space. It should be chatty but instead it’s clunky. It was a similar vibe with Nikolai in GoF because he’s also a very talkative excitable character but I swear it was easier to read than this.

>!I was, like, suck my dick, bitches!" I " A laugh. "Pardon my French unless you don't want to. See what I did there? Because your last name is French and I'm half French?" My joke falls on deaf ears, or more like Dr. Duret's ears. Because, yes, of course I need doctors. She's one of them- the therapist I talk to while she scribbles notes in her little black notebook. Let's just say I might have tried to strangle her the first time we met. In my defense, I was like eleven, my mother was gone, and I'd murdered a professor in cold blood. That made Dad lose his shit trying to fix me with whatever methods necessary. That, of course, included calling his favorite pal, Regis Callahan-Jude's dad-who dedicated his pharmaceutical empire to "make me better." And that's where Julian came in-you know, the power-hungry dude who's now taking over for Regis and overseeing Operation How Many Drugs Can We Pump into Preston Before He Shrivels and Dies?!<

TL:DR
I think RK needs a better editor. This isn’t about her characters or plots. When I say writing style I mean her ability to write a sentence.

I’m a young woman who has never dated or had sex. This isn’t an issue in itself, the problem is that it happened because I don’t want to date or have sex. I’ve never even had a silly little celebrity crush.
This wasn’t a problem as a kid or teenager, but the older I get, the closer the dreaded marriage issue gets. On my salary, I’d never be able to own a house, so I’m probably going to need a double income at some point. My friends are going to start focusing on building families, and I’ll eventually be lonely. I’ve got a good group of people around me, so I’ve never been judged for this, but by the time I’m 40, people are going to view me as being behind in life no matter what I do.
How did you encourage yourself to like your partner? How do you frame sex so that it’s something that interests you?

Flatmates chicken was eaten and I’ve been accused of it. She knocked on my door asking about it and I told her “sorry I don’t know anything about that”. Today I woke up to a note slipped under my door saying she thinks I did it and that’s really rude and not nice please send £10 to my account. I didn’t eat that chicken. It’s so awkward I’m half willing to just pay the £10 to get it over with but the other half of me says fuck you I’m leaving in 2 days. I’m 50/50 on whether or not to pay her.

WIBTAH if I just upped and left and blocked her. We’ve barely talked this year and I never see her around so it’s not like I need to maintain this relationship.

Edit: for anyone who hasn’t looked at my only previous post I don’t eat meat which makes this whole thing even stranger.