Nine Lives by Tom Barber – 2 Stars
Publisher: BooksGoSocial
ISBN: 9781478172895
Sam Archer. Who would have guessed
that Sam was the key character and foundation for the Series? Neither he nor
other main characters were ever developed fully to capture your interest. Plus,
with a story that read like a series of headlines, that is, event after event,
all similar with same expected outcomes, and nothing around them, the result
was undoubtedly a very bland novel. If you were looking for “just the facts ‘Mam”
repeated again and again, you got it.
Yes, one could call this intense, but, no, one did not get a story.
This was a free book to review
from Netgalley.com. Thus, I expected a copy with incomplete editing. However,
this was terrible. There must have been 50+ errors where words were split or
run together with other words per page. One’s mind adapts to this and reading
continued on regardless. Thus, editing was not considered in the rating.
Much of the story was unrealistic
and implausible. Some would view this as a requirement for intensity. For me it
became a deterrent to continue. I struggled to about 50% before I began to read
one sentence per page with my eyes focused on the middle of the page. Didn’t
miss a thing! At 80% I gave up and could care less how it ended.
I don’t know whether this was just
the first in a Series or the author’s first ever. I’m leaning toward the latter
and had no interest to even look it up. Sorry, let it suffice to state that I
found this novel a flop.
Reviewer: Rich
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