Books Not Taken: Earthlings

The second in an occasional series about why I have chosen not to pick up certain Netgalley books for review. Blurb begins: "Peridot has lived a sheltered life, raised by an overprotective mother on a remote island, the ways of the world remain a mystery, until the arrival of a young boy Euan, and she finally learns the truth." That needs to be at least two sentences, and rearranged a bit. It's in the style I call "British breathless," a particular way of punctuating that shows very little understanding of where a comma belongs or what it does. Further dings against the book from my personal perspective are that it's a Chosen One story of a young girl with magick (with a "k"), able to use the traditional five elements, and it's a dystopian. The cliches come thick and fast. And then there's the fact that, among the "Advance Praise," I read this: "An Enid Blyton of the social media age" - THE HECKINGTON POST There doesn't appear to be any such publication, and the only three instances of the quoted text I can find in Google are on pages controlled by the author. Is he making up his own press?