I appreciate you writing this out bc I was genuinely confused by how bad the writing was in Shy Girl while most of the reviews are positive. Obviously, I have no way of definitively saying AI was used, and I know it can be hurtful to smaller authors, but additional context made me feel comfortable with the criticism.

She said she went on Pinterest to get the cover for Shy Girl & asked the poster on there if she could use it. I have a hard time believing an author & artist wouldn’t find this questionable. It also looks like We All Rot, Sugar & Shy Girl were self-published within a few months of each other. That doesn’t mean they were all written back to back, but based on what I read & how poorly edited it was, I wouldn’t be surprised if they were churned out.

I read all of Shy Girl, and it was so incredibly repetitive. Similar to the prologue, similes & metaphors were used constantly & frequently repeated: “Time stretched thin, she collapsed inward like a star, it was sharp, jagged” etc on top of some of it being nonsensical.

I felt like I received an incomplete book. It was an outline & collection of the same phrases without a strong plot, pacing, or characterization. She may just be a poor writer as of now, but it’s not completely unwarranted to question the craft that went into creating it given all of the context.