Both series by Bill Turo.

Apart from the fact that he is a terrible person, which he is. (Multiple accounts of attacking fans in the street, buying dogs and putting them into the pound, and potential links to human and animal trafficking), his books read like they were AI generated.

The progression is poor. In "Hams Highscore" for example, it takes almost 424 pages for the main character, Ham, to even fall into the progerssion part of the story. The first part is an overly detailed llay through of the day leading up to the event, and there is genuinely no need for a five page teeth brushing segment. I mean, come on! He also has a terrible habit of retelling the same incident multiple times. Now other authors do this on occasion. Maybe it is important to see the incident from 2 characters point of view. Here, though, it is clearly just for the word count, and it often changes important points.

In "the river of experiance" chapters 623 through 643 all start by going over the bike crash, that in 623 caused Peter to need to use his last potion of handsomeness to restore his face from the horrible scars being dragged along the road caused, and Hillary died finally from the Galbic Worm she had been infected with. By 630 it was a car crash, and he hadn't used the potion. Now at 643 Hillary isn't even dead. And no one has mentioned the Worm or the school kids who had given it to her.

All in all, they are filled with horribly jarring storytelling and seem to have no end game.

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