Welcome to the Cardinal Christmas Market, an exclusive holiday experience where the offerings are as unique and quirky as the people and town who run it. Douglas is a first-time vendor, and he's determined to make a splash and grow from there. A mix-up means he has no choice but to share a booth with Boyd, one of Cardinal's own. Douglas and Boyd don’t like each other’s style... or one another. But in the ensuing weeks working the booth, with help from a little Cardinal Christmas Market magic, they find their art, world views, personalities, and passions are complementary—even compatible. Can they get past feeling like the coal in each other's stockings to a sweet happy ending, or are they destined to be holiday humbugs?
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DNF - PG 13
Why?
The sentence structure, word choice and writing style.
Quite shorter than Douglas, but tall as compared to Lacey.
That is not only an entire sentence, but a whole paragraph.
Or, how about:
The small structure was a phone booth and a half, and the number of extension cords leading into it made Douglas wonder if a power surge or a fire was more likely.
... I'm still not sure if the descriptor ‘a phone booth and a half' was just supposed to mean it had a lot of phones in it, or if it was also supposed to describe size.
Anyway, life's too short fr me to try to puzzle out this style of writing.
(And now that I find out this is the same author as Staggered Cove Station it makes so much sense why the writing doesn't work for me at all.)
