Quote Originally Posted by warty goblin View Post
I love rough things, so I tend to really enjoy rocky first novels. It's once the author gets more polished that the boredom sets in.
Oh, a few years ago I read Patricia Briggs' first book, Masques. Mostly competently put together actually, but there are a couple of plot-points/-holes where you go "Okay, yeah, this is a debut novel".

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Like the part where one of the main characters straight up forgets for three days that his lifelong companion and true love is a shapeshifter, and would thus likely have shifted her shape and need to be identified by scent.