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The Incredible Origins of the Onyx Sun
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Zack Goodspeed is a normal kid with average parents and an eccentric grandfather who invents things. One of these inventions is a source of power that is used to fuel a spaceship destined for the moon. Zack stows away on his grandfather鈥檚 ship along with a girl named Max. There is some adventure, treachery and maybe even the beginnings of love?
I don鈥檛 know, as I gave up reading 2/3 of the way through. The pace was excruciatingly slow, the characters were one-dimensional, and I finally set the book aside because I just didn鈥檛 care anymore. The overuse of the word 鈥渢eam鈥� was terribly annoying. It reminded me too much of work. As Dr. Cameron said in House, 鈥淚 hate sports metaphors.鈥�
The author, Christopher Mahoney, sent me an early release galley. Perhaps some of the book's flaws were addressed in the final version.
The cover art is great, though.
I don鈥檛 know, as I gave up reading 2/3 of the way through. The pace was excruciatingly slow, the characters were one-dimensional, and I finally set the book aside because I just didn鈥檛 care anymore. The overuse of the word 鈥渢eam鈥� was terribly annoying. It reminded me too much of work. As Dr. Cameron said in House, 鈥淚 hate sports metaphors.鈥�
The author, Christopher Mahoney, sent me an early release galley. Perhaps some of the book's flaws were addressed in the final version.
The cover art is great, though.
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Jun 28, 2009 02:42PM
I didn't even make it past the first chapter. The writing was just terrible and raw. I don't think I'll be trying again. :P
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I'm baffled at all the high ratings. I had difficulty with this one as well.
I feel bad, but I can't tell a lie.
Well, you couldn't feel too bad: you have it categorized under "waste of trees." LOL!!
hahaha! Maybe that was going just a little too far?
No. I appreciate your honesty in the review, not that this is a book I would ever read in the first place; the genre doesn't interest me. It's hard to talk straight when you realize someone labored over the book and has feelings about it. I noticed a lot of glowing reviews for the book here, but, you know what? No author will ever improve by listening only to the praise.
A bad, Nancy. Better luck on the next one:) Your review was great though ;)
Thanks for your comments and the votes, guys. :) I love science fiction and YA literature and really wanted to like this one.
christopher, i cant speak for nancy, but i think what you are doing is very inappropriate. are you attempting to intimidate a reviewer into changing her review? (rhetorical question) nancy did you a favor. and as to your defense of your one dimensional characters-that is just plain annoying. i was reading 1984 in a classroom setting at age 8. and if i were a child who had to be dragged to a book- it would be a book with fleshed out real characters that hooked me. and it sounds like your book is difficult to hold even the attention span of very intelligent adults-who have the right and ability to make up their own minds.
great review, nancy. i agree with evan!
I don't think "waste of trees" is against the new GR policies.
I caught sight of your 'abandoned' bookshelf, Nancy.A great idea that I fully intend to steal. : )
Feel free to steal 'waste of trees' too, Kevin. :)
