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“3 (three) Preview” By Robert Burke Richardson & Zeke Review

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Covert operative Claire Chartrand has a dozen guns pointed at her – and that’s the least of her worries! The same betrayal that lands her in an impossible situation during a critical mission also reveals Claire’s true occupation to her two identical sisters – a scientist and a model – who now discover that the company Claire works for is partially responsible for the professional success they thought they’d earned on their own.

Let me start this review by saying that this one is just a preview for the entire comic book. And I read it because I wanted to see if the full comic book was worth the money and time I would spend on it. And im gonna give you the answer for that at the end of this review.

I need to admit here that this preview gives us a fun narrative which had the potential to be very good and interesting. But the way it was presented to us really makes it seem like it is struggling to find its own footing and make readers interested in the full version of this comic book.

The preview aims to set the stage for a larger story but in my opinion it lacks clarity and coherence to actually gives us a good story which would make me interested enough to in reading in the full version of this comic book.

The plot is difficult to follow, and in my opinion the plot has a lot of disjointed scenes that fail to establish a clear narrative or purpose. This lack of structure makes it challenging for me personally to engage with the plot or even understand the intended direction which the plot tries to take.

The characters we get in this preview feel very underdeveloped, with little to no backstory or motivation which would help actually liking the characters. Because of this lack of depth and personalities to the characters makes me to not be invested in their journeys.

The interactions between the characters in this preview feel very superficial, lacking the substance needed to drive the story forward. At the same time the interactions between the characters in this preview feel very cringy and unrealistic which really didn’t help me with liking this preview or being interested enough to buy and read the full version of this comic book. 

The artwork in this preview had the potential, but a lot of times the artwork struggles to compensate for the narrative weaknesses. The artwork are often confusing, with panels that lack the necessary detail to convey the story effectively.

I personally felt like there was no clear storytelling or character development in this preview. Which gave me the impression that the writer of this preview didn’t know what he was doing.

I Give This Book 1 / 5

“The Pet” By Ellis Parker Butler Review

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This one is my second short story by Ellis Parker Butler, and I gotta admit that I start to think that his work isn’t for me. Because when I read his work I end up not liking it and giving it a one star rating.

The plot in this short story is very flat and boring throughout the entire of this short story. Which really made it tedious for me to read it. 

The narrative of this short story felt disjointed and like it lacked a coherent flow which would make me engaged in the short story.

The characters in this short story were poorly developed which really did only help me with disliking this short story even more than I already did from the plot of it. The characters in this short story felt very one-dimensional and very flat. 

The author attempted to give us humor in this short story, which really felt very forced and made me cringe a lot instead of laugh at the humor. 

The writing itself was a struggle at times. Because it is very outdated and just failed to capture my attention and paint the plot in a interesting way.

This short story also drags a lot for the majority of this short story, which really made me skim through paragraphs, hoping for a turning point that simply didn’t arrive.

I Give This Book 1 / 5

“The Hard-boiled Egg” By Ellis Parker Butler Review

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A short story that appears in Eugene Thwing’s “The World’s Best 100 Detective Stories”

I gotta say that I didn’t have a lot of hope for this short story but I’ve read it anyways. 

The plot here revolves around a quirky take on a simple object which of course is as the title say Hard Boiled Egg. Which really made this short story very ridiculous for me which is one of the reasons for the low rating from my part.

The author attempts to give us some humor in this short story but in my opinion the humor felt very forced which only made me cringe instead of laugh. 

There were a lot of moments during me reading this short story I felt that the story was often tedious, with a lot of drawn-out scenarios and a predictable plot.

The characters in this short story are very bad and boring. Because are very one-dimensional and at the same time the characters are lacking depth and relatability. Which really doesn’t add to me liking the short story more. It does the opposite of that actually.

There were a lot of times where the short story drags for far too long and focuses on some jokes which would have worked at the time when the short story was published and not in 2020s.

I Give This Book 1 / 5

“The Problem of the Crystal Gazer” By Jacques Futrelle Review

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I gotta admit that this short story is very boring and uninteresting. I’m reviewing this one a few hours after I read it and I cant tell you what it has been about since the plot in this short story is almost not existing. 

The writing style in this book is very bad and makes the whole plot of this short story look even worse because it doesn’t play well with the plot of it.

The plot in this short story as I’ve said above is almost not existing whatsoever. Which really disappointed me a lot because ive read some very good things about this short story from the book club I am in on Discord. 

The characters here are very shallow and flat. And to be honest they seem like the same character. Because all of the characters in this short story have nothing which would sett them apart from the rest of the characters. 

I Give This Book 1 / 5

“Andrew Tate – Escape The Matrix : 92 Laws Of Success, Money & Fame” By Cobra Tate & Arslan Chaudhry Review

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Some Lessons teaches how to use dark psychology for sales(“Lesson 85: Send People Their Money Back”), others teaches the mindset required (“Lesson 25: Be Passionate For Money Only”) and people’s favorite (“Lesson 63: Loser Rolls With Losers, Winner Rolls With Winner”) Every Lesson, though, has one thing in It teaches you how to become RICH. This Book is ideal whether you’re just starting out or if you already have a six figure business.

I need to admit that I don’t know why I tried to read this book because I hate Andrew Tate and don’t agree with a single thing he says. But very fortunately I didn’t spend any money on this book because when I got this book on my kindle it was free. 

This book is just a collection of all the shitty things Andrew Tate said on camera to earn money from the watch time on his videos to traffic women. 

I had more or less DNF-ed this book after reading 10 pages of this book, because I’ve noticed this book isn’t worth my time or the memory usage on my Kindle. 

If you are like me and don’t agree with anything which comes out of Andrew Tate’s mouth, don’t reading this book because it isn’t worth the time or effort to read this book. 

I Give This Book 1 / 5

“The Miracle of the Mountain Quilt: An Appalachian Christmas Story” By  Angela Tilsher Review

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When a once-in-a-century hurricane tears through the Appalachian Mountains, it leaves behind more than broken homes-it leaves shattered hearts. But amidst the ruins, a patchwork of hope begins to form. In this heartwarming Appalachian Christmas tale, a family’s heirloom quilt, thought to be lost forever, finds its way back home.

I gotta say that this one was a surprise for me because Ive expected to like this one but after reading this one I gotta say that it was the opposite of good. 

This one is sort of a picture book but not quiet. Yes there are a illustrations on each page of this book but at the same time the text on each page is much longer than on the regular picture-books.

The book had a good premise for the plot, but the way the book presents the story wasn’t exactly my piece of the cake. Of course it could be just me after binge-reading a lot of books on my kindle which might have not helped me liking this book. But hey thats are my thoughts about this book. 

The plot in this book is very vague and doesn’t go into a lots of details and backstory. Which for me was way too vague which didn’t help me while reading this book.

For the most part the plot here was huh. I feel like the plot would have been much better if it was longer and maybe didn’t have as many illustrations as it had. 

The characters here, well I cant say a lot about them because we don’t learn anything other than a one or two facts about them throughout this entire book. And I feel like I don’t know enough about them after reading this book to really make any opinions about them and if I like them or not.

The writing style here was probably the best thing about this book, because it is very charming and sweet in a way. And I really really enjoyed the writing style.

I Give This Book 1 / 5

“City of Bones” By Cassandra Clare Review

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When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder― much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body disappears into thin air. It’s hard to call the police when the murderers are invisible to everyone else and when there is nothing―not even a smear of blood―to show that a boy has died. Or was he a boy?

I gotta say that I have to stop reading those very overhyped books on the internet, since neither of them are actually good in my personal opinion. 

This book is a very typical YA book, with the plot being very unbelievable. Like the beginning of this book where the bouncer at a nightclub lets in 2 15-year-old girls into the nightclub. 

I personally found this book very boring. The reason behind this might be the fact that it was in a huge reading slub while I picked up this book and tried to read it. Its important to say that I DNF-ed this book 150 pages or so into this book. 

I think that I was bit of too harsh to this book because of the reading slub I was in during reading this book. And because of this I wanted to read it again some time in the future. 

This book has a good beginning because its interesting and somehow enjoyable. But the deeper you get into this book all the momentum this book had during the beginning disappears and all the interesting parts just vanish into thin air. 

The writing style in this book is a very typical for a YA book, which means that its easy to read and it isn’t advanced. But I personally liked the writing style in this book because it played well with the plot of this book. 

The characters in this book were very generic for a YA book, which really disappointed me a bit because I’ve read on the internet that the characters in this book and the entire book series are very good. 

But after reading this book I gotta say that the characters are pretty flat and somehow shallow. Because they have very little personality and they almost blend together cuz they are so similar to each other in their personalities. 

I Give This Book 1 / 5

“The Big Book of Serial Killers” By Jack Rosewood & Rebecca Lo Review

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There is little more terrifying than those who hunt, stalk and snatch their prey under the cloak of darkness. These hunters search not for animals, but for the touch, taste, and empowerment of human flesh. They are cannibals, vampires and monsters, and they walk among us. These serial killers are not mythical beasts with horns and shaggy hair. They are people living among society, going about their day to day activities until nightfall. They are the Dennis Rader’s, the fathers, husbands, church going members of the community. This A-Z encyclopedia of 150 serial killers is the ideal reference book. Included are the most famous true crime serial killers, like Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy, and Richard Ramirez, and not to mention the women who kill, such as Aileen Wuornos and Martha Rendell. There are also lesser known serial killers, covering many countries around the world, so the range is broad. Each of the serial killer files includes information on when and how they killed the victims, the background of each killer, or the suspects in some cases such as the Zodiac killer, their trials and punishments. For some there are chilling quotes by the killers themselves. The Big Book of Serial Killers is an easy to follow collection of information on the world’s most heinous murderers.

The reason why I read this book wasn’t that I was interested in actually reading it, but I got this book as a gift from someone and since I already had it on my TBR bookshelf I decided to go ahead and finally read it after this book had laid on the shelf for a better part of 2 years. Its also important to say that I had DNF-ed this book after having read 150 pages of it or so. 

To be honest in this review I gotta say that I had quite a few issues with this book, and I will explain all of my issues with this book of course right here in this review. 

The main thing which annoyed me the most about this book is that this book contains false information about the cases or serial killers it talks about. Those false information doesn’t happen often but they do happen a fair share of times during this book. I personally think that if you gonna write a book about a true crime cases then the author should at the very least double check the dates, victim names, and other relevant information before printing and publishing the book.

The second thing which annoyed me a lot, was the very bad grammar in this book. As some of you may know from being around my website for a while, English isn’t my native language but even I noticed the very bad grammar in this book. Which really in my opinion says a lot about how bad the grammar is for someone who’s second language is English to notice the bad grammar. 

This book is supposed to be a encyclopedia that gives an overview of each killer but the problem with that it focuses very little time into each killer and by doing that it gives us a bare minimum of information and details about each killer which doesn’t make this book be a “encyclopedia”. To be honest you can learn more about each case if you just watch a 5 minute YouTube video about each killer. 

The tone of this book is also very bad because it feels like written by someone in the 5th or 6th grade. Because of the many spelling or grammatical errors which happen over and over again in this book. 

From what I have seen on Goodreads, Jack Rosewood had written a fair share of true crime books about real like serial killers. Which doesn’t look good for me after reading this book. Because there are so many things a experienced writer like him wouldn’t do, but it was done anyways in this book.

I personally have been interested in the topic of serial killers, so I have some kind of knowledge about the majority of people discussed this book. And to be very honest here, you can find much better sources on the internet which do much better job covering the cases than this book does. 

There are a lot of printing errors in this book too. Which really annoyed me because the layout of this book would change every couple of pages or chapters which really made me confused. Because if the author spend x amount of hours researching the cases and writing about them, why wouldn’t he spend a few more hours making sure that the layout of this book is the same from front to back ?

It almost feels like there was no published or editor having a look on this book before actually printing and selling the copies of this book. Which really blows my mind because at this point I have read hundreds of books and this book is the first one I came across which have the stupidest mistakes which could have been avoided.

So after reading this book, or trying to read it, I gotta say that this book isn’t worth the time nor the money you will spend on it. Because it gives the reader the bare minimum about each case and it is filled with errors that really should be avoided when you are about to publish a book. 

I Give This Book 1 / 5

“Sterling: Preview” By Joshua Gorfain & J.C. Grande Review

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For Jack Sterling, life is an unending bore of working for the neighborhood print shop punctuated by the occasional bar fight and the verbal sparring with his ex-girlfriend Becky. When the body of defeated vigilante, Phantom Gazer, is thrown through his window, Jack stumbles into his life-long dream of being a superhero. Taking the helmet that gave Phantom Gazer his powers, Jack also takes up the fallen hero’s quest of defeating his killer, the criminal overlord Lord Dragon.

Let me start this review by saying that this one is just a preview for the entire comic book. And I read it because I wanted to see if the full comic book was worth the money and time I would spend on it. And im gonna give you the answer for that at the end of this review.

There are parts of this preview where it falls flat on multiple fronts and at the same time this preview does leave a lot to be desired from it but where this preview doesn’t give it to us.

As a preview should have entice readers into wanting more, but instead, it feels more like a chore to get through.

The narrative in this preview does lack clarity and depth to it which really didn’t make interested in reading the full comic book.

At the same time the character in this preview are introduced to us without sufficient background or development, making it difficult to connect with their motivations or care about what will face during this preview or the entire version of this comic book.

The dialogue in this preview feel very stilted and unnatural, which detracted me personally from any potential emotional engagement. I was more or less left with awkward exchanges that fail to resonate with readers.

The plot in this preview was interesting and ambitious at first, but the main issue I had it with the plot in this preview is that it suffers from pacing issues. Because the plot jumps from one event to another without giving readers a chance to invest in the storyline. As a result, the stakes never feel as high as they should, and the tension is almost nonexistent

The writing style in this preview is more or less a mixed bag. Because in this preview we get glimpses of creativity, but they are overshadowed by clunky prose and repetitive descriptions.

Reading this preview felt like the creators of this comic book struggle with finding a consistent voice, which further hampers the reading experience.

I Give This Book 1 / 5

“One Soul: Preview” By Ray Fawkes Review

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From visionary cartoonist Ray Fawkes comes one of the most original and thought-provoking graphic novels of all-time! A unique and poetic narrative, One Soul takes the experiences of 18 individuals and weaves them into the spiritual journey of a lifetime. Gracefully flowing from character to character, moment to moment, Fawkes has crafted a stunning mosaic that takes advantage of the medium of sequential art in a way few creators dare.

Let me start this review by saying that this one is just a preview for the entire comic book. And I read it because I wanted to see if the full comic book was worth the money and time I would spend on it. And im gonna give you the answer for that at the end of this review.

I need to admit that this one has to be one of my least favorite comic books so far, and yes I still remember that this one is only a preview for the full comic book.

The concept for the plot in this one is very ambitious but the way is presented to us in at least this preview falls very flat for me at least. 

The concept here is intriguing for me since it talks about the exploring interconnected lives through time and space, but after reading this preview I was left very confusing since it made me feel like it was a very bad copy of the Star Trek franchise. 

The narration in this preview spans over multiple characters and eras, it could be just me here but I found it very confusing and annoying. And because I got those two feelings and thoughts about this one I just couldn’t bring myself to like this one or be even slightly interested in buying and reading the full comic books. 

The storyline here feels very disjointed and in a way it lacks clarity which would keep the storyline in one direction rather than change the direction with every shifting perspective from one character to another. There are times while I was reading this one that I was feeling like the storyline is trying to overarching themes which really made me even more annoyed. 

If I’m to be very honest here, this preview feels more like a collection of fragmented moments rather than a cohesive story. Which is the reason why I was so confused while reading this one.

The artwork in this one is for sure stylistically unique, but in my opinion it feels very chaotic and overwhelming which isn’t the best thing to be if the reader is already confused solely from the plot of the comic book. 

The artwork often crashes with the narrative of this comic book because instead of enhancing the narrative, it frequently distracts from it which made me dislike this preview even more than I already did.

The dialogues in tis one are very sparse and even when they are present, they often lack he depth needed to convey the characters’ emotions or motivations. 

To be very honest here, after reading this preview I have no interested in buying and reading the full version of this comic book because of how much I disliked this preview.

I Give This Book 1 / 5