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P. Doran

Dumb Teenage Boys Only

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 18, 2014

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The only other negative review was jammed at the very back (since that's how Amazon rolls, bad reviews go to the end of the list). I ignored it and hopped on this book, big mistake!

First off, this is definitely Urban Fiction just to be clear. This is a similar flavor of genre to Dresden Files and the Iron Druid series, except it's written for a 13 year old boy.

Did I say written for a 13 year old boy? What I meant to say is, it's written for a crass, sexually frustrated, dumb 13 year old boy.

How dumb? The sort of dumb that thinks Fast and the Furious had good dialog. THAT dumb.

The author constantly comes close to breaking the 4th wall and talking at the audience about multiple modern day "issues" - only to embarrass the reader for having given over money to hear that "GMO's" might be the cause of Global Warming since "no one knows the real cause".... I'm serious, he actually says that. Want more? Oh he also mentions that "the government is corrupt, because of surveillance and all that". Seriously, that's how he talks. Does ANYONE learn anything from an opinion like that?

He also rants against people that marry and have children right out of college. Why? I mean who cares???

Also, every woman is HOT + super horny all the time and they all talk about nothing but sex and men that they're checking out. Seriously, one woman nearly gets raped. She is then rescued, but in spite of how emotionally traumatized she should be, she hugs her NAKED male rescuer (and stranger) in the same dark alley where the rapist is still laying on the ground. Another woman running with her husband leers at the protagonist while running with her husband and nearly runs into a parked car - her husband then gets angry...because these things just happen due to women's insatiable libido and sex gaze. Another woman sees surveillance black and white video of protagonist fighting people in dark alley. She notices how "bad ass his fight moves are" then notices that she's SUPER HORNY (omg time for wet panty check!)....

Then there's the men. There's only 2 acceptable kinds of men listed in book. There are super cool culturally aware nerds that talk like Fast and the Furious characters, then there's super cool and culturally aware "bad ass macho army men"....who also talk like Fast and the Furious characters. Everyone else is either British, or considered scum in some way.

This isn't a fantasy to me. This is a nightmare. If the world ever became this dumb, I wouldn't be long for this world.

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Christina

Has the Author Ever Talked to a Real Woman?

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 11, 2014

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Not yet finished, but had to write something after running into yet another "woman with the mind of a 12 year old boy" scene. I caught myself wondering yet again if the author was a man who never actually had contact with a real woman...and had to look it up. Newsflash - in general women do NOT fantasize about giving out fellatio - nor are we visually stimulated like men. We are not men. Men see a naked woman and react physically - women do not.

Women don't just end sexual relationships because the guy is a selfish prick and stay friends - although I'm sure many pretend their internal dialogue would reflect more pain over the break. We connect too deeply. A woman who has been attacked will NOT hug a naked man - no matter how hot he is - how does she know he's not beating up the others to have his way with her? A woman watching a naked man - even a perfect one - in a fight will not get hot over him. Interest maybe, but women are about relationships - feelings - touch. We need fantasy that involves talking/relationships and contact to get us worked up - not just a "perfect" body.

Further the language is ridiculous - I understand the dragon is coming awaking in the middle of a city so he's going to have to sort through some crass language and was amused the first time, but when he strings lists of "words he's learned" and it's just a bunch of curse words - I feel like I'm listening to a bunch of pre-teen boys giggling over 'naughty words'.

The book has a good premise, I like the concept. I want to give it a star for that. Yet it's so juvenile in language and in the female characters that I'm not sure I'll be able to finish it.

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lorraine k fix

The scenes of battle read like a video game

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 14, 2014

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This book reads, in some parts, as if it were written by an immature adolescent. There is no character development, the characters were shallow and immature in their relationships and language and that include, to some degree, the main character, Tesser. When the author was dealing with mythology, Tesser's background, and some of Tesser's thoughts, the writing matured a bit. The scenes of battle read like a video game. If you like video games, then you will enjoy the endless, endless descriptions of daemons being evaporated. I was intrigued enough by the concept to finish the book but I don't recommend it to anyone over the age of twelve.

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Caitlin

Crude, unpleasant, and underwhelmingly executed.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 13, 2017

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My complaints may make fans roll their eyes, but... This book is full of unnecessary foul language, a minor obsession with pregnancy, and female characters who are unbelievable and behave inexplicably sometimes. The characters react to things as if they had been described spectacularly, when really, the description of what the characters are reacting to was lackluster at best. There is some creativity in the world building, but it isn't enough to make up for the flaws. This book is dross. I couldn't finish it.

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Amazon Customer

One Star

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 4, 2016

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Very poor writing!!

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