Love the series, getting annoyed by repetition

I adore Robyn Petermans style and series. Don’t ever want her to stop. The quirky characters storyline’s and laugh out loud moments are brilliant. I am though, getting annoyed by the repetition of the entire last chapter of the previous story which takes a solid half hour out of the story and then again a word for word repeat again of a solid section of story later on. In fact I’d almost say it was a repeat of the performance as well not a genuine second recording. I thought it was going to happen a third time when the need arose and imagine my relief when it was just talked about instead of repeated again. I don’t believe direct repetition is necessary, and if it’s just being done to flesh out the length of the book, so you can justify the cost, or you don’t feel like finding a different way of explaining what has happened previously, that’s a lazy way of storytelling and it’s ripping off your readers/listeners. Robyn, this is directed to you, I seriously do love your stories, but I was annoyed a few times in this book when descriptions of one particularly heartbreaking scene (the first time I heard it in the last book) was repeated twice in this one, and side character back stories or situations were also repeated almost word for word. You can do and have done better. The story line and series is great and a wonderful addition to good to the last death series. Please take this as constructive and don’t churn and burn half a book out next time.

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