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Steven Evans

Autor(a) de This Calling Master

12 Works 43 Membros 16 Críticas

Obras por Steven Evans

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Data de nascimento
1984
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
USA

Membros

Críticas

This review was written for LibraryThing Member Giveaways.
I had a really hard time getting into this book and couldn't finish as a result. I think this may have a different audience, so could be good for others!
 
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onemused | 7 outras críticas | Jul 5, 2017 |
This review was written for LibraryThing Member Giveaways.
Wednesday leads off with a quote that my 8th grade Homeroom and Math teacher, Mr. La Cognata, used in a dizzying number
of situations, from volleyball practice to homework excuses. The story then moves smoothly into believable middle school conversations
and scenarios, with a lot of death foreshadowing.

The early introduction of mind control creates an intriguing dynamic between many of the characters as well as a progression of
low key suspense joining the 'Who will die' question. Steven Evans makes it easy to care about the characters and their fate.

The game rules were more confusing than Quidditch.

Welcome would be deeper development of each character as would be Wednesday
actually drawing the levee-bridge-canal-river for a clearer impression.
It would also be great to better understand Wednesday's motivations aside from
all her existential nature ruminating.

The ambiguity of the resolution of the personalities of Lash and Wednesday
was unexpected and quite good.
… (mais)
 
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m.belljackson | 7 outras críticas | Jun 21, 2017 |
This review was written for LibraryThing Member Giveaways.
This isn't normally the kind of book I read so it was very exciting for me to try something new. I would describe it as a dark, and suspenseful thriller. It is very detailed and lively and will definitely pull you in and keep you entertained. It also makes me want to expand on the style of books I read.
 
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StefyMariah | 7 outras críticas | May 30, 2017 |
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I revived this book via LT book giveaway.
DNF at 50%

I may or may not come back to this book. Every time I tried to read it, I literally fell asleep. Everything fell flat. There was no character building or any kind of building for that matter. It was just plain monotone.

If the book through the first 50% managed to do anything other than make me sleep, it was annoy the heck out of me.
I am sorry but 12 year old kids do not talk like this. Unless they are somehow a mini Sheldon Cooper

But I doubt it. So while they are running going on about that, apparently the adults are just stupid and let the kids do whatever.

Let me take a second here to say something about the teacher Ms. Jablinske ... She freaked me out to the point I feel like a red danger sign should be posted on her forehead. She offered way way way way to much PERSONAL information. You are not there to teach them about your life. You are there to teach them math, language, ect. They do not need to know you are 20 something and never married with zero kids. It is a classroom. Not a dating profile. They are 12, you pedo.


Wednesday is suppose to have some kind of mind control thing from what I can tell so far but honestly it just seems like a load of hogwash to me. Lash swears up and down that Weds has control to make people do things but all I have seen her do is talk her way out of trouble. So to me, no mind control.... just a skilled con-artist.

I wanted to like this book. No. Correction, I wanted to LOVE this book. The blurb sounded SO amazing. But sadly, It wasn't. From start to me having to stop at 50% all I wanted to do was sleep and beg them to just stop.



… (mais)
 
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FearStreetZombie | 7 outras críticas | Mar 22, 2017 |

Estatísticas

Obras
12
Membros
43
Popularidade
#352,016
Avaliação
½ 3.5
Críticas
16
ISBN
13