To start off with I have been a very bad girl, not only have I not reviewed or posted in like three weeks but, I bought a nook and have been playing around with it instead of reading my stack of books. With one of my books I do not believe that I will be able to write a review, I feel so many different things and opinions that I will have to write a whole post about it.
A Pinstriped Finger’s My Only Friend
I received an advanced copy of this book for free through netgalley program
for a honest review. This is going to be
one of those hard to rate books. I can
tell after reading it that I was too old for the category of this book. I am going to try and do my best and rate the
book on the book itself and not my dislike or the fact that I am obviously not
the targeted audience.
I’ve never had an acid trip but, this is what I imagine what it would look
like. At one point the thumb was trying
to give a reason for the trips such as learning a lesson and looking at things
from someone else’s perspective but other than a couple of paragraphs about
that, there was no other point.
So we experience one average day in his life then, he is uplifted to an
alternate reality. He slowly realizes
that he is no longer in his normal world and while he enjoys some of the
changes he decides he would rather go back home. He goes to sleep and yet again wakes up in
another reality, each and every time he goes to sleep, (sometimes even when
awake) he travels to another sometimes even more bizarre realities. Each later reality seems to offer real
physical danger and a trophy; he latches on to what he and his thumb see as the
only thing to get them out. SPOILER he
does get back home, I do not remember how though. By this point I was skimming over and zooming
through pages just to finish the book.
Some of the worlds did seem to be creative however, this book did not
contain any action, definitely no romance, yes science fiction however nothing
was latched on to or maintained other than world jumping. I did not find any deep thoughts, which I think
the book might of tried to aim for after the supposed action/adventure. Book summed up, he jumps from alternate
reality to alternate reality with each progressive reality being shorter than
the previous reality. Eventually, after
a dim-witted teenage boy’s deep thoughts, he ends up back home. Any action, adventure, romance, science
fiction presented in the book was so nil to be unworthy of being called
such. The writing style did not agree
with me either, not that it was bad or contained grammatical errors, I just did
not like it. In the end, I flipped
through even more pages than I actually stayed on, I did not enjoy the
book. High school, junior high, and
advanced middle schoolers would probably like this book more than me. A few of the scenes were a little bloody and
mildly violent so it’s a give and take with each reader. Two stars is all I feel that I can give this
book. ☆☆★★☆
Fortress of Mist Book two Merlin’s
Immortals by Sigmund Brouwer
I received this book for free through the Goodreads first reads program with
the intention of receiving a honest review. I was going to review this book in more of my
typical atypical fashion but, I will have to start a little differently on this
one. I finished reading this book over a
month ago and on remembering this book I almost feel like it is not a book but
one of those books written as book 1.5 after books one and two have already
been written. I did not read the first
book in the series before reading the second book. It
felt like it tied up loose ends from the first book with only a little action in it’s own
book.
In this book Merlin has already finished his triumph against the king and
is taking charge of castle and town. He
is introduced to problems that he has to deal with now as being king, and
leftovers from being a peasant, like figuring out which religion to take sides
with the traditional or the new mystical, keeping the people happy with him
leading, and figuring out who his family and the current people in is life
are. Merlin selects people for
positions in his cabinet*, is visited by mysterious people from both religious
factions, and is forced to march to a neighbor to reinforce his reign. SPOILER he then wins and does not have to
actually force his army to fight. Then
he marches back home and is visited by mysterious people again. There actually is more to the story than that
but, that pretty much sums it up. I
found the book on the short side and I would say grade school to middle school
level but acceptable read for all ages.
I just did not find that much to the story so I would only give it a two
star rating.
