Let me start off by saying that this book had the potential to be something different and good...but in saying that, I believe that it fell short.
As far as the actual writing was concerned, there were very awkward sentence structures and a few grammatical errors that really took away from the root of the story. I am hoping the final edit will get some of those taken care of but it seriously made it hard to enjoy any of it because it was hard to read.
You can read a summary of this on Goodreads, so I won't waste time on that. I will say that the meat and potatoes of the story was good. Cinque, a young man living in a poor town, set out to find out why such strange things were happening to him. Outside of that, it was super confusing. There is one part where he becomes faceless and nameless and I believe it was WAY more complicated than it needed to be. I also think that the story dragged in parts and I found myself wanting to skip forward to see the action. It is my opinion that there were too many characters with weird names that weren't introduced properly, lots of lose ends that weren't tied up and a few inconsistencies, including dialogue/speech. Maybe there weren't and I just missed something, but the point in all this was that the book was extremely hard to follow from beginning to end. The characters were not ones that you fall in love with and they seemed to develop the "answers" out of thin air.
I hate giving bad reviews and I'm an open minded reader, for sure, but I did not enjoy this book at all, and it's a shame. I am interested to see what the actual released book will be like. The premise and set up to such a thing would have been great but based on the book that was received, I can only give 2 stars.
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