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A review by angieinbooks
Interference by Zoe Reed
4.0
I’ve had Interference on my radar for a long time and finally got around to reading it and I’m really glad I did. I liked so much about this novel, but the best thing is the development of the relationship between Jordan and Taylor.
This isn’t a perfect book and I’m giving it an extra star because I enjoyed it so much, but at nearly 500 pages long, it’s very obvious while reading it that Reed should have asked someone to edit down the novel. And I’m not intimidated by page numbers (and I really shouldn’t complain when someone keeps allowing me to read a story I’m enjoying), but its missteps are really obvious. There are some glaring grammatical errors and details or time spent on stuff that really could have been removed. In a serialized format over the course of weeks/months, I think it could work. It actually reads like fanfic—and I don’t mean that disparagingly because fanfic can be great—but just didn’t quite work in a novel I read over the course of a few sittings. There’s also a lot—A LOT—of roller hockey. You’ve been warned.
This book should also come with trigger warnings because there’s a lot of dark stuff that’s being referenced here. I think Reed handles it as well as he can, so it’s not offensive (that I’m able to see), but it’s there.
Reed has a lot of potential as a writer (most of my complaints about the writing are easily fixed with an editor—the ideas are there, which is more important) and I look forward to more of his non-fantasy stuff.
This isn’t a perfect book and I’m giving it an extra star because I enjoyed it so much, but at nearly 500 pages long, it’s very obvious while reading it that Reed should have asked someone to edit down the novel. And I’m not intimidated by page numbers (and I really shouldn’t complain when someone keeps allowing me to read a story I’m enjoying), but its missteps are really obvious. There are some glaring grammatical errors and details or time spent on stuff that really could have been removed. In a serialized format over the course of weeks/months, I think it could work. It actually reads like fanfic—and I don’t mean that disparagingly because fanfic can be great—but just didn’t quite work in a novel I read over the course of a few sittings. There’s also a lot—A LOT—of roller hockey. You’ve been warned.
This book should also come with trigger warnings because there’s a lot of dark stuff that’s being referenced here. I think Reed handles it as well as he can, so it’s not offensive (that I’m able to see), but it’s there.
Reed has a lot of potential as a writer (most of my complaints about the writing are easily fixed with an editor—the ideas are there, which is more important) and I look forward to more of his non-fantasy stuff.