Hey /lit/, could you guys give me your opinions on this opening excerpt?
http://www.ew.com/article/2016/02/04/michael-dimartino-rebel-genius
Fucking hell he's actually going through with it. I remember finding out about what Mike and Bryan were going to be up to on /co/.
Anyway, it reads like George R.R. Martin for kids. Mike's prose is boring and workmanlike, which I suppose isn't the worst thing in the world. We get a huge lore-dump right away, which I hate, and for some reason this fantasy setting having a person say 'Yeah, right' is extremely annoying.
It's YA, so it's not for me. But I don't like it, even so.
>>7673250
>Anyway, it reads like George R.R. Martin for kids
Remarkably dead-on
There's something that bugs me about authors using the character's name over and over instead of pronouns.