I'm so disappointed.

{Starlight and Shadows by Vera Winters.}

i read the blurb, cosy sapphic elf-pirate fantasy, seems like my thing. i read a few pages monday, put it down, and continue on tuesday.

the first thing i do when i download a new book is look at the acknowledgements and about the author- i like to see their inspirations and their personalities in their writing. this book didn't have either. i thought that was odd, but not necessarily a deal breaker.

something seemed off about this book when i picked it back up. almost uncanny valley- it was trying to convince me it was a book rather than... being a book? idk how to describe it, but something was weird.

so i went on my trusty old friend goodreads, and read the reviews.

they were all DNF's, because the book was AI.

the publisher didn't exist. the only books that come up for vera winters are written solely in italian. the series is on a book-per-month schedule. the cover illustrations are not credited, and are in slightly different styles on each cover, along with other AI literary mistakes that i didn't get far enough into the book to notice.

i feel so... cheated? someone is going to pay good money for that book (i had it on KU so it was free for me luckily) and give money to someone that did absolutely no work, over someone that slaved over their novel.