April 15th, 2013
Ember by Madison Daniel
What
I got was a book that has been falsely advertised as a professional
urban fantasy.This book doesn't even deserve to replace the phone book I
have set in place under my unlevel kitchen table. Not only was the book
slow at pacing, poor at character development and struggled to keep me
interested with it's thin, humdrum storyline; IT WAS FILLED WITH SO MANY
ERRORS!
To
call it professional would be an insult to all books sitting on the
shelves on many peoples' homes. The writing was at best, Horrible.This
author does not know to properly write a story. He often told actions
instead of showing them. I kid you not, there had to be 15 to 20
grammatical errors, misuse of words and unnecessary use of punctuation
on every page. It was almost impossible to get through the book with
this many issues.
The
plot was probably the second worst thing i hated about the book. The
characters were written vain and unrealistic. The lead character was
just stuck on stupid and I could not feel for him.
His
two love interests? I swear I wanted to blow Asia's head off because
she was this insecure, spoiled little brat that other than her looks had
almost no appeal. The one positive thing I will say is that i kinda
liked his other love interest Sam, but she just couldn't see that Max
was an idiot not worth her precious time.In the beginning I was rooting
for them; but in the end I just wanted her to wake up and leave Max to
be miserably in love with Asia.
And
let's not forget their X-Men abilities. Apparently Max could ignite
flames from his body, and Asia could control storms, rain, the weather;
You name it! But there was absolutely no explanation on how they were
even bestowed these powers. Was there some kind of radioactive
explosion? Are they part of some government experiment project that
injected babies with superhuman genetics? The answer is I DON'T KNOW
because there was absolutely no logical reason they were able to do the
things that they could do!!!
I
hate to give a book a bad review but this book could have easily been
put through the developmental editing process to help improve the story.
And I know editing is expensive but it's worth it when you see the
final project. I may have given this book a 3 had they had taken the
necessary steps to make this book really shine.
The only person I had in my head was Asia
Megan Fox as Asia
Libertad's Rating:
Ha! I remember feeling the same way when I read the book. Sorry it disappointed you, too.
ReplyDelete@manda, yea. No offense to the author, it just didnt work for me.
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