Today we see that sometimes, a single word can just make your book its bitch.
What I gleaned about the story: A young girl is given into the hands of a magical Sisterhood following the death of her mother. I suspect she grows up under their care to acquire strange powers, and maybe seeks revenge on a heartless and distant father, but I’m only guessing.
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Kudos: A great opening sentence: “Is Mother dead yet?”
Analysis: Two pairs of consecutive sentences, all beginning with “The.” And since they come on the first page, they get charged full freight.
Analysis: A couple of pages into it and the steady structural cadence of subject, verb, object, repeat is starting to peek through the narration. Not really conspicuously yet, but it had the ill luck to have another headword echo right in the middle of it. (And again with echoing “The.”)
Analysis: And now I’m seeing both paragraphs and sentences echoing. One paragraph had three sentences, all beginning with the same headword. And once again, it’s “The.”
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