Eric vanHorn

Most unappealing book I ever forced myself to finish listening to

Revisado: 03-07-25

The author loves to describe things. Excruciatingly detailed. Sometimes it was beautiful and added a vivid experience to the book, but most of the time it was just unnecessary and distracted from the story of the book. And *spoiler alert* the story of the book is what exactly???? It isn’t clear. There were so many tangents. I hope to never ever find myself committed to listening to something so horribly boring. What’s worse is I had to rewind many many many times because I would zone out and stop paying attention to the story. The climaxes were non existent. The big reveals were SCI FI, somewhat interesting, but bland. It was delivery. I think a lot of the trouble is the reader. Her voice was the same for everyone, robotic, even for the people who aren’t robots. I think the author chose this person for reasons that were unrelated to whatever the skills are that make people interesting to listen to.

Not recommended for anyone who likes a good story.

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Great story telling

Revisado: 09-08-24

Fantastic imagery. Kept me glued to my chair for all four books and I’ll be getting the next book immediately after submitting this review

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Finally…

Revisado: 08-16-24

Only took them almost 20 books to get this point…. I won’t say spoilers, but finally…

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Fantastic, one of my new favorites.

Revisado: 06-07-24

I wish they’d put out projections on when they will publish the next books in the series on graphic audio. This version of the books is fantastic and needs to be continued. Please tell us when, or if……, you plan to release the next book “iron gold” on graphic audio/dramatized version.

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Fascinating!

Revisado: 06-19-23

Love them all. Still haven’t gotten bored yet. Though I still think he’s with the wrong girl….

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Potential reader be warned, this book may cause drowsiness

Revisado: 05-24-23

The author clearly put her soul into writing this book. I have to give her that. She really did her best to capture her feelings and experiences in her writing.

BUT, this was the most boring book I have ever read. I dabble in everything. From sci-fi to romance, from autobiographies to leadership and ethics, from war novels to teen fantasy, I’ve read countless books of all types. I’m proud of the breadth of my reading and rarely find a book that doesn’t at least have some appeal.

I bought this book because of a personal interest in Taiwan. I don’t want or need to read any more colonial history or war memories about Taiwan. I wanted to read something that was more personal and more in tune with the cultural and historical perspectives than the otherwise common books on Taiwan. This was that.

To be fair, she gave me exactly what I was looking for, kind of. To be more than fair, no one wants fifteen chapters of you telling us about how the mountains and random plants call your name and about how you went hiking even though you are in poor physical condition. It’s beyond uninteresting. Why am I getting pages and pages of text about how scientists are missing gaps in random flora genealogies in the middle of a poorly recounted war story about your grandfather that sounds like someone recounting a dream, and not a vivid dream, one of those weird dreams that you want to tell people about but realize half way through that nothing you are saying makes sense so you shouldn’t have started.

I really truly feel for the author. Her experience going “home” to Taiwan must have been really something to her. She certainly gets that point across well. That said, goodness gracious, this book was not written for me.

If you have parents or grandparents that immigrated from taiwan, this book may appeal to you.

If you are just looking to get to know more about taiwan from this book, let me save you the time and summarize this book for you:

Basically, the author’s parents moved from Taiwan to Canada and she felt called to travel there and to recount her experience in this book. She saw mountains and some animals and really likes to explain, in detail, science stuff about plants and animals which is completely unrelated to the story. There is pollution and it’s making the plants and animals die. Democracy and protests are helping. War bad, old people die, people have regrets and long for what they don’t have. The end.

If zero stars was an option, I’d still give it one star for her effort, but not for the story

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Outstanding

Revisado: 10-07-22

This was a fantastic read/listen. I couldn’t put it down. Thrilling, and full of an appropriate amount of action, drama, and violence. I knew of the mossad but not of the lengths to which they go to avoid harming innocents. This is one of probably many things that sets them apart from their neighbors.

Amir, your approach to evangelism is refreshing. Too many people are caught up on religion and have lost sight of faith and the truth and the light. I only recently heard of you when one of your videos popped up on YouTube covering the Russian mobilization. The warning you are sending by connecting present day events to biblical prophesy is important. Please, don’t stop.

God bless you Amir. God bless Israel.

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