I won this book in a giveaway from Marie and did not know what to expect. I'd never heard of the book before, or even the author, and reading the book cover didn't give much of the storyline away at all. Even looking it up online didn't give much away, just glowing review after glowing review.
So I started reading it and was hooked by the first few chapters. Aden Fisher is a truly gifted writer.
To be honest, it is hard for me to explain this book without giving the story away. All I will say is, it's a very moving story about a boy who at an early age suffers the loss of his sister, the person he was closest to in his life. The book chronicles his life as he struggles to find himself in a world without his anchor. He feels like he is losing his mind. And you start to wonder if he really has.
The ending? Unbelievable.
There are two things, however, that keep me from giving this book 5 stars.
1. He used the word groaned too much. As in "the stairs groaned..." or "the thunder groaned...." It irritated me after a while.
2. There were some grammatical mistakes. But I am giving Fisher the benefit of the doubt and say that it was the publishers fault.
In all, I feel it was a very good book and glad I read it. If anyone else would like to read it, let me know and I'll pass it along!
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I'm glad you liked it. I actually won it in a giveaway last year myself. :P Fisher is a really young writer, and that shows a bit.
ReplyDeleteYeah when I first got the book I saw his picture and thought "Is he what, 16??" Very young. But also pretty talented for someone of his age, and will hopefully improve with age.
ReplyDeleteI think that maybe you and I should have a meet up at Tyson's to do a book exchange. I'd love to read this book but would hate to make you mail it to me when you're so close!!
ReplyDeleteI may never know how or why, but Aden Fisher is following me on Twitter, so I Googled him. Hadn't heard of his books and Google's results were...bewildering. Your blog really helped, and not I'll get Kingdom and I'm looking forward to it.
ReplyDeleteAden is following me on twitter too, for no apparent reason. He must randomly select people to follow, as a marketing scheme I suppose. Based on your story, it seems to be working.
ReplyDeleteHmm.. he just started following me on twitter too! As an author myself, that seemed not so unusual. And it led me to THIS blog, which seems like a place to send my own book. The subject is "sacred sexuality" so I hope there will be an interested reader to review it. Not sure how that works yet, but I'll look into it.
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