Pepstar, Dominique: Tonner Daphne Dimples Repaint, 2009-11But I felt like this was really a draft for a screenplay -- a screenplay that would have led to a funny, semi-believable movie -- but, in the interests of time or money or whatever, the Girls decided to go with a Young Adult novel because that is I'm guessing the easiest thing to publish... and it just makes all the weird plot constraints all the weirder and more constraining, and more artificial.
Or -- maybe in an effort to do something “different” with the genre they felt they had to have all these weird strained plot points.
Basically, there is no true and deep and genuine love for the Young Adult genre here.
But there were lots of hilarious one-liners, which is what I really wanted, after all.
I agree totally with this reviewer on the technical fail of this novel.
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Despite learning this lesson, I went ahead and got caught up in the hype of their roman-à-clef novel, The Royal We, in late 2015 / early 2016. I couldn't get past the halfway mark of this 464-page behemoth, though; Cocks and Morgan don't know how to tell a story. Scenes are dense with the details of clothing, decor, jewellery, hairstyle, but the characters are shadowy and undeveloped. There were lots of hilarious one-liners, but hilarious one-liners do not a novel make.
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