Javier Alc Alc itibaren 3830-167 Gafanha de Aquém, Portugal
I know what you're thinking--why would I of all people, who gives practically 4 or 5 stars to almost every book I read give a book like this one two stars? Well let me tell you the kinks I found about this book that I absolutely disliked. 1. Excessive typos - there were a couple places where quotations marks were missing and such, also random letters were changed and I think what happened was that when J.D. Stroube was typing her book, she forgot to stop the auto spell check thingies from occurring and when they did, didn't see them being fixed. 2. Where did that ending come from? (out of the blue...outoftheblue...out of the blue) 3. By the time I ended the book, I felt intensely dissatisfied. I felt like...how should I describe this?...unfinished and abrupt. The fact that Stroube whipped out such a heart-wrenched-in-the-wrong-way ending took away the three stars from my review. The reason I'm posting this is because my writing used to look like that I sincerely believe Stroube can make it better. Also, I read a sample on Smashwords and it had some material that I didn't see in the book and I was wondering why. If Stroube reprints this book, makes a second edition and proofreads the thing and adds more hints leading up to the ending, I believe she'll make the plot more worthwhile.
Any attempt at reviewing this would in itself be a hyper-duplicating verb/execution thingie. If everything is illusion, hyper-illusion/reality/and such, then my question is: how is this different from Buddhism? Seriously, I found this pretty interesting, even if I didn't understand some of the meanderings that took you down dark academic alleyways.
I've probably read this book 15x. My husband says "What's up with the talking rabbits?" but it is so much more. It has loyalty, unlikely heroes, action, adventure, folktales and characters with a strong will to survive.