When they were handing out adjectives to authors this one went back for thirds. I feel like I need a shower to wipe the muck off. Book discarded. 📚

@Miraz Yikes. All of that information could have been conveyed in a way that was more evocative and less hurried.

@Miraz Someone's editor was slacking. lol

@Miraz Tee hee. Maybe the dark tan of the leather will turn out to be an important plot point near the end of the book!

@Miraz How gracious of you not to mention the author or title!

@Lynessence Editor? I thought the industry had pretty well abandoned that tired old idea.

@ReaderJohn LOL. Didn't want to slam the author. That's definitely not the only book I've put aside on account of adjective overload.

@JMaxB Maybe! I'll never know. 😆

@Lynessence Self-published book so may not have had the benefit of an editor type person.

@KimberlyHirsh Indeed!

@Miraz There's a way to write without losing any of the evocativeness and still be better. I know some luminaries of self-publishing are all, "Seriously, pay for an editor," and now I see why.

@KimberlyHirsh

she answered the call.

@JohnPhilpin I mean to say that if all this descriptive detail is important, it can be included (in separate sentences, at other points in the story) and the prose still clarified.

@KimberlyHirsh I know - file in ‘humourless humour’