Review: The Green Door

The Green Door by Heather Kindt
My rating: 0 of 5 stars

DNF at 30%, for a number of reasons.

1. The punctuation is by Jackson Pollock, and there are quite a few other issues too (missing past perfect tense, homonym errors/eggcorns as basic as "your/you're"). Even an excellent editor would struggle to polish out all of them.

2. The worldbuilding is inconsistent. Of the talking animals, the cat is specifically stated to have no opposable thumbs - yet is somehow an herbalist - but the badgers and warthogs can shoot bows with great accuracy and no apparent issues. Somebody must have made the cat-sized clothes, so some of these animals can use sewing needles... it's not thought through.

3. The characters are showing strong signs of being Spoiled Protagonists, handed trust and help they haven't earned by people they've just met, who have no reason to give it to them except that they're the protagonists.

4. Apart from that, it's fairly average YA. Where I stopped, cliche was looming in the form of probably a love triangle.

No rating because DNF, but DNF because I could see it was going to be three stars.

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