My imagination had whispered the name of this place to me when, to my knowledge, I had never known it even existed. I haven’t had that happen since the ninth Anita Blake novel, Obsidian Butterfly, when Edward insisted he lived in New Mexico, even though I’d never visited the state.
She'd never known New Mexico existed? I know that's not what she meant, but it's what she wrote, and it's sort of important for a professional writer to line those two up.
but this gives you a taste of the trip
No it doesn't. It tells us that these places happen to exist and you saw them. That's it. Children writing about what they did on their summer vacations do a much better job of this stuff.
Poor Ireland. Hasn't it suffered enough without LKH setting a book there?
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She'd never known New Mexico existed? I know that's not what she meant, but it's what she wrote, and it's sort of important for a professional writer to line those two up.
but this gives you a taste of the trip
No it doesn't. It tells us that these places happen to exist and you saw them. That's it. Children writing about what they did on their summer vacations do a much better job of this stuff.
Poor Ireland. Hasn't it suffered enough without LKH setting a book there?