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Chad T. Douglas

Autor(a) de Lore: A Pirate's Charm

6 Works 13 Membros 2 Reviews

Obras de Chad T. Douglas

Lore: A Pirate's Charm (2015) 4 cópias
Earthshine (2015) 3 cópias
Lore: The Old World (2011) 1 exemplar(es)
Lore: East and Eight (2010) 1 exemplar(es)
Big Blue 10,022 (2018) 1 exemplar(es)

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This review was written for LibraryThing Member Giveaways.
This is my first official review on LibraryThing, and my first time reviewing an eBook. I found the format (PDF) a bit hard to read (pages were too short - 582 pages in my verion), but that doesn't affect the content of the book of course.

Overall, I'd say the story was moderately engaging, it just seemed to meander quite a bit. Earthshine is the title, but we aren't introduced to the term until half-way through the book, and even then, it is unclear why it is significant. I enjoy sci-fi/fantasy, so found the descriptions of life on Mars in the 2500s interesting - how people live and travel around, android integration, etc. I wouldn't describe the story as overly inspired though.

The editing was more New Yorker magazine than popular newspaper; the abundance of run-on sentences broken up with commas all over had me reading and re-reading sections, just to follow the meaning. I prefer a book that sucks me in and lets me coast along, enjoying the story; I felt I had to work too hard with this to follow along. There were some typos in the book as well, which presumably might be caught if this goes to a paper-based version, but irritated my proofreading mind. More importantly, though, I never really felt like I cared about any of the characters. Some, I wasn't even sure why we were introduced to. The book got off to a very slow start, introducing a bit at a time...but then in some cases, I never figured out why; it could have started several chapters later than it did.

An okay read for someone with "life on Mars" stories as a hobby; for most of the rest of sci-fi readers, there are probably better options.
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peralb | Jul 23, 2015 |
This review was written for LibraryThing Member Giveaways.
An awesome, excellently written book about a true old world lore. The story moves along well and is exiting. It writes about real old world lore regarding vampires and werewolves. This author really knows how to tell a tale that will hook you from the very beginning.
 
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tiggersrule28 | Jun 10, 2015 |

Estatísticas

Obras
6
Membros
13
Popularidade
#774,335
Avaliação
½ 3.5
Resenhas
2
ISBNs
6