Review Detail of Morag_Xavier in GAMBIT

Looking at GAMBIT it would normally not be a novel I would read. It just isn't the normal book I would grab at a store on a web place like this, but I was happily put in my place when I began to read. Writing Quality: The author's setting has been clever but going into a later time than modern era can cause issues. This is where our writing quality is shown. Normally in these type of stories, there is one of two types of issue. Issue one is where the reader knows this time period and the author explains it to them like they are kids. Kids who have never had a history lesson in their life. The reader feels dumb or grows bored as they already know this information. Issue two is where the reader knows nothing about the time period and this time the author doesn't explain anything. They don't understand what is going on and it takes a couple chapters to understand this new world. This is different in GAMBIT. I know quite a bit of this time period for researching in my own novels or college essays but the information given to explain this time period is never too much or overwhelming. This is how you can see just how great the writing quality is. He has managed to avoid these two core issues I find in these books and make it a myth. Add to that to his third-person writing that sounds as if an old man has sat me down and is telling me the story through a professional journal and I found myself enjoying this more than I expected. Stability of Updates: I am new to this site and I am not perfect on this but there is one thing I noticed that I couldn't help but notice. This author takes the advice and updates their books over time. The comments show how some paragraphs people had issues and instead of ignoring them the author corrects or improve upon these. This tells me that even if a chapter didn't come out every week that this author is doing a well-done job. Not many go back and correct their mistakes since that means accepting they made a mistake in the first place. Story Development: I read up to chapter 5 before going back to reread. I stopped again in chapter 2. This story is paced incredibly well. Our main conflict and object of interest are set in front of us from the very start. Sometimes that can cause too much speed to the plot but it seems the author was prepared. Never once did I feel like it was getting boring or off. In fact, despite coming simply to write a review as part of a review swap, I am invested. I am willing to come back when I am free just to read forward on this world. Character Design: Characters are always tricky to get right but the author eases their appearance and personality without a lump that tells us. We simply see the character as they see them. It's refreshing to see and highly enjoyable. World Background: The world is the least developed but that isn't really that much of an issue. The era has been explained that we can see the world ourselves and our Jumanji chess board adds it's own world and feel to the entire story. Overall: 4.8 total score. I enjoyed and will be reading this at some point in my free time to follow our main character.