There is a want of "inevitableness" which sometimes amounts to improbability, as in the case particularly of that most vivid and racy of books, Cripps the Carrier, where the central incident or situation, though by no means impossible, is almost insultingly unlikely, and forces its unlikeliness on one at almost every moment and turn.
"The English Novel"
George Saintsbury
Lord March, to whom the seer had presaged the event, at noon reproached him with the unlikeliness of its completion.
"The Scottish Chiefs"
Jane Porter
This is a masterpiece of construction, convincing amid its unlikeliness, one of the best novels of the season.
"First Person Paramount"
Ambrose Pratt