It seems as if many readers and reviewers really liked this character, but I found her reasoning skills and actions so unrealistic for an 11 - year - old that it led me to feel
the book was less than stellar.
Not exact matches
Quality
book cover design doesn't come cheap and the last thing you want to do
is write a check for a cover that
's less than stellar.
I've spent a year and a half building my platform — working diligently to build twitter, google +, FB and I have a weekly blog... I do blog tours, I do signings, you name it, on paper I
'm told I
'm doing great — and yet my
book launches
are less than stellar.
I've seen some really well - thought out responses to
less than stellar reviews, but I've also seen some really pathetic responses, possibly written by authors whose mothers told them their
books were very good!
And by the way, Patterson and plenty of other
less -
than -
stellar trad pub authors sell millions while good
books go unnoticed, so it
's not just indie publishing that
's that way.
If you
were reviewing a
book about building birdhouses, not mentioning a
less -
than -
stellar design might
be understandable.
I like e-ink even if the refresh rate
is less than stellar for the amazingly efficient energy usage, but adding a back - light that could
be turned on at night would make it just about the perfect display for mostly static content such as that found in
books.
Along with the paper comic
books, EA has released video counterparts, and while the art style could
be called
less than stellar, the team behind Dead Space has managed to combine superb voice acting with a deep and intriguing story that may even
be on par with Aliens, which it has
been very closely compared to.