Bad Ebooks, Big Sisters and Plot Holes
I was reading an ebook recently, whose title and author I have thankfully forgotten; the characters were complete crap and read like a fourteen year-old wannabe mean girl had developed them. The premise was vaguely interesting, hence me attempting to read it. Basically, the main guy character had been cursed and hadn't aged for around three hundred years. His pre-curse life was in the military or as a constable or something of that nature. Basically, the fact that he had arrested people who then languished in imprisonment came up (In his internal dialogue. This stuff wasn't even plot necessary!). However, this clearly uneducated person, and I mean that purely in the literal sense and not as an insult, said that he sent these people to "the gallows" before describing them wasting away in confinement and then finishing the paragraph with something to the effect of "and that didn't account for those that were hanged". I reread the whole paragraph just t...