A Book Fanatic

Bitterly Dissappointed

Revisado: 09-09-16

What would have made The Kid better?

A coherent storyline and at least one tolerable character would have made the story better.

What could Sapphire have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?

Developed a better story that featured well rounded characters.

How could the performance have been better?

A professional performance might have made this a slightly better experience. Sapphire started out giving a solid performance, but after a couple of hours her voice often took on a droning quality. The performance and lack of inflection made it hard to even understand some parts of the story.

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

I was unbelievably dissapointed after purchasing this book.

Any additional comments?

I was excited to purchase this book because I loved Push (Prescious) so much and wanted to find out what happened to her son.

*Spoilers Coming*

The first few chapters were okay, but it felt as if Sapphire was simply trying to quickly tie up loose ends by quickly getting rid of the friends Prescious made in Push. After the beginning of the book Prescious's former friends were brought up once more as a plot device to explain away some previous events. The bulk of the story revolved around Abdul and his life in foster care, an orphanage, and on his own.

I didn't expect this story to have a happy ending, but I expected a coherent story. Abdul's story took on what I'm sure was supposed to be a dreamlike quality, unfortunately Sapphires performance turned these scenes into a droning, monotonous, hard to follow listing of events. In short, parts of the book were a complete mess.

To make matters worse, a lot of the story was unnecessarily convoluted. Characters were introduced briefly then never mentioned again making me wonder why so much time was spent on them when their presence didn't move the story along at all. Finally, the majority of the characters were appalling or not developed enough to like them one way or another. The only character I really felt something for was Abdul's great grandmother, but again her storyline was ultimately wasted.

Abdul himself was a dissapointment on many levels. Initially I felt as though his awful actions, instability, and overall horrible behavior was meant to show how abuse comes in cycles or show the results of incest. Instead, his story just seemed as though it was written for shock value and not to impart a message. He was just an utterly unlikeable character bumbling from one horrible situation to another while never facing any real consequences for his actions.

I recommend skipping this book entirely. No matter how much you enjoyed Push I guarantee that this story will dissapointment and depress you.

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Fantastically Horrifying

Revisado: 05-24-16

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I have never considered myself a werewolf fiction fan, but this book collection changed that. The story hits the ground running by instantly throwing the reader into a terrifying situation as a man goes from worrying about annoying his wife to fighting for his life. Things only got more intense after that as first one character then another found themselves fighting the elements and creatures out of nightmares. I was constantly on the edge of my seat never knowing who was going to make it and the author consistently surprised me with well timed plot twists. What I loved the most was the authors wonderful ability to "show" rather than tell. I was cuddled up in blankets longing for hot chocolate because just reading the book made me feel as if I was in the middle of a blizzard struggling through the snow with my favorite characters.

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Ok Story with Terrible Narrator

Revisado: 05-24-16

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The story presents a unique twist on zombie fiction that is not for the faint of heart. It creates a universe that was intriguing and terrifying. The two issues I have with this story are the character development and the narrator. It's hard to get into a story when you don't have a character to really root for, and honestly the bad narration probably had something to do with my lack of interest in the characters. The narrator was simply awful and ruins the audio version of this story. His attempts at female voices were a cross between laughable and off putting plus he tends to over emphasize certain words for no reason or uses an oddly breathy tone.. I am going to try one more book in the series BUT I won't be going for the audiobook version unless there is a change in narrators.

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