Reddit reviews The Betrayed: A Novel of the Gifted

I hate it when writers overuse the verb "to look" and its other stand-ins.

I remember having to translate this abomination. There aren't nearly enough words in my native language to match the plethora of "looked", "glanced", "peeked", "watched", "gazed", etc. that were so abundant in that book.

I swear, if you took out all those meaningless passages where characters merely looked at details of buildings or clothes, you'd have to take out 2/3 of the whole book.

I was never aware that it was possible to say that X looked at Y in so many ways in the English language.