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I enjoyed the first couple of books but then things seemed to tail off after than and I lost interest after the third or fourth one -- the same with the Ender series, which seemed to get very preachy in the end, which is never a good thing.

I think the key here is not to overuse the adverbs and alternatives to "said". I don't think any readers will stumble over the odd "squeak" or "dryly" but if they are used all over the place then the reader can quickly tire of them. When I started going through my (unpublished) novel for the...

A cliché becomes a problem the moment it pulls you out of the story. If you don't notice them, then the author has gotten away it :-).