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The Airith Saga #1
Death of a True Love
“Love is selflessly giving your breath away to allow someone else to breathe.”Sometimes a love is so powerful that it curses those who dare try to tame it. And so starts the beautiful love story of Airith and Rapha. They are cyborgs, who were created and destined to kill the other, but end up falling in love, which in turn causes the world to be scorched by The Sadness. You have to read this novel to find out the ending.
- GenresScience FictionRomance
57 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 12, 2012
2 people are currently reading
105 people want to read
About the author
Bryan Butvidas
10 books28 followersOnce called "The cleverest writer on the Internet" by LA Weekly and “A controlled chaotic mega brain that creates methods of madness that work freakishly well” by The Huffington Post, Bryan uses his technology background that he has developed since the age of 3 when he programmed his first pixel animation and mixes it with his non-traditional marketing methods to break the rules and develop big result products or campaigns.
Before being covered by The New York Times for his writing and international social experiment, Bryan is credited for developing some of the first and highest rated clone scripts and has produced success on each endeavor he has challenged himself with, and by success, he is able to boast over 1.8 billion page views on his Internet products collectively, 90,000 books sold on all continents, ran a number one radio show with 20,000 listeners, has been featured on almost every major world news station, newspaper, website and magazine. There is a good chance you’ve seen his content on your social news feed or even reported on by your local news station.
His passion is creating amazing products that have purpose and meaning. And by amazing, he wants to develop ideas that can better a person’s life, not just their pseudo social online persona. Along with the creation of meaningful technology, Bryan loves to build small teams that can produce superior and distinct products within short periods of production. His team members all agree that Bryan will always credit his team for the successes and takes blame for his team’s failures. He will stay in the trenches with you until a project is not only done, but until it reaches his high personal standard.
The Atlantic sums Bryan up in one sentence “The Internet’s best kept secret”.
Before being covered by The New York Times for his writing and international social experiment, Bryan is credited for developing some of the first and highest rated clone scripts and has produced success on each endeavor he has challenged himself with, and by success, he is able to boast over 1.8 billion page views on his Internet products collectively, 90,000 books sold on all continents, ran a number one radio show with 20,000 listeners, has been featured on almost every major world news station, newspaper, website and magazine. There is a good chance you’ve seen his content on your social news feed or even reported on by your local news station.
His passion is creating amazing products that have purpose and meaning. And by amazing, he wants to develop ideas that can better a person’s life, not just their pseudo social online persona. Along with the creation of meaningful technology, Bryan loves to build small teams that can produce superior and distinct products within short periods of production. His team members all agree that Bryan will always credit his team for the successes and takes blame for his team’s failures. He will stay in the trenches with you until a project is not only done, but until it reaches his high personal standard.
The Atlantic sums Bryan up in one sentence “The Internet’s best kept secret”.
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April 15, 2012
Review on Linny's Literature
I was lucky enough to recieve this book from the author in exchange for an honest review in one of the Young Adult Reads group's "Read to Review" events.
With the story of two star-crossed cyborgs in a dystopian future world, each sharing half of one heart that they both need in it's entirity to survive, Airith - Death of a True Love certainly had an original and intriguing story premise. And being a novella (it took me roughly an hour and a half to read the whole thing), it would be quite a feat to successfully complete world-building and explainations of such a complex story in so little time. In my opinion, I don't think the author was successful.
It almost felt as if I was reading a rough draft. The book lacked the "meat" of build up, getting to know characters, and understanding the future world, etc that are crucial in this sort of story. Names such as "The Mother", "Life Pool", and "Magija" were thrown around without any explaination until about halfway through the novella. Even then, they were only brushed over. I think that if the explainations, etc were added throughout the story appropriately, then this "rough-draft" novella could become a wonderful full length novel. Besides the things that this book lacked, there were things that it did have that bothered me.
At the beginning of every chapter, there was a meaningful sentence or so said by "Woman's voice". It almost seemed like a movie script, which might also explain the to-the-point writing that I mentioned above. I see in the discussions for Airith on GoodReads that the author hopes to make it into a short film, so I'm guessing it was likely written with a movie in mind. If that is the case, then alrighty, but a heads up would have been nice before reading. The only other thing that bothered me was the confusing jumps through past and present. Under the number of the chapter at the beginning of each chapter, it also mentioned when that particular chapter took place. It jumped randomly from anywhere to "Today" to over "1000 days ago". Maybe I'm just dimwitted, but it got confusing for me immidiately. When that one thing happened, was that 1000 or 400 days ago? Was that before or after this event that happened around 500 days ago? You see what I'm getting at.
It really didn't bother me so much, but I think it should be noted that were some grammar errors throughout the book. A missing period here, missing comma there, missing new paragraph starts for new speakers (for most of the first half of the book, after that it wasn't a problem), and the occasional wrong word/wrong tense (past vs. passed, cover vs. covered, etc). Nothing that a once over editing couldn't fix easily. As I said, didn't bother me too much though.
The unique story of Airith - Death of a True Love has a lot of promise, so with a bit of fixing up here and there, I think this book could become a real gem. Of course, everything I said in this review is my personal opinion on the book and others may feel differently. I'd also like to mention that at the back of the book (at least for ebook) there were pictures to go along with the story that were really beautiful and well done.
I was lucky enough to recieve this book from the author in exchange for an honest review in one of the Young Adult Reads group's "Read to Review" events.
With the story of two star-crossed cyborgs in a dystopian future world, each sharing half of one heart that they both need in it's entirity to survive, Airith - Death of a True Love certainly had an original and intriguing story premise. And being a novella (it took me roughly an hour and a half to read the whole thing), it would be quite a feat to successfully complete world-building and explainations of such a complex story in so little time. In my opinion, I don't think the author was successful.
It almost felt as if I was reading a rough draft. The book lacked the "meat" of build up, getting to know characters, and understanding the future world, etc that are crucial in this sort of story. Names such as "The Mother", "Life Pool", and "Magija" were thrown around without any explaination until about halfway through the novella. Even then, they were only brushed over. I think that if the explainations, etc were added throughout the story appropriately, then this "rough-draft" novella could become a wonderful full length novel. Besides the things that this book lacked, there were things that it did have that bothered me.
At the beginning of every chapter, there was a meaningful sentence or so said by "Woman's voice". It almost seemed like a movie script, which might also explain the to-the-point writing that I mentioned above. I see in the discussions for Airith on GoodReads that the author hopes to make it into a short film, so I'm guessing it was likely written with a movie in mind. If that is the case, then alrighty, but a heads up would have been nice before reading. The only other thing that bothered me was the confusing jumps through past and present. Under the number of the chapter at the beginning of each chapter, it also mentioned when that particular chapter took place. It jumped randomly from anywhere to "Today" to over "1000 days ago". Maybe I'm just dimwitted, but it got confusing for me immidiately. When that one thing happened, was that 1000 or 400 days ago? Was that before or after this event that happened around 500 days ago? You see what I'm getting at.
It really didn't bother me so much, but I think it should be noted that were some grammar errors throughout the book. A missing period here, missing comma there, missing new paragraph starts for new speakers (for most of the first half of the book, after that it wasn't a problem), and the occasional wrong word/wrong tense (past vs. passed, cover vs. covered, etc). Nothing that a once over editing couldn't fix easily. As I said, didn't bother me too much though.
The unique story of Airith - Death of a True Love has a lot of promise, so with a bit of fixing up here and there, I think this book could become a real gem. Of course, everything I said in this review is my personal opinion on the book and others may feel differently. I'd also like to mention that at the back of the book (at least for ebook) there were pictures to go along with the story that were really beautiful and well done.
April 10, 2012
I couldn't let go this book, it was too flawless, too perfect. Even when it was short it was so complete. The cyborgs were so human.
I am really happy Bryan let me review this magnificent story (:
I am really happy Bryan let me review this magnificent story (:
April 9, 2012
Thank you Bryan for the chance to let me review your story. I have not read a love story quite like this and I liked it. When I read the synapsis I thought...hum I wonder how much cyborg parts do they have?.... It was nice to see that the two characters are still more human than not. It just made it a little more real to visualize. I thought the story was good but it was short. I also was a little lost at times because at the beginning of each chapter the time frame changed, it was like he had flashbacks and then the next chapter he would fast forwarded to the presen,t then there were times that it was unknown. So I just started ignoring the time frames and read the chapter trying to guess whether it was the present or the future. Other than that I did enjoy the story, it was a fast read and only had about 40 pgs. It also had some very nice art that depicted the city and some of the main characters which was very cool.
April 6, 2012
A BEAUTIFUL LOVE STORY
Sometimes a love is so powerful that it curses those who dare try to tame it. And so starts the beautiful love story of Airith and Rapha. They are cyborgs, who were created and destined to kill the other, but end up falling in love, which in turn causes the world to be scorched by The Sadness. You have to read this novel to find out the ending.
The author says he is not a writer, but a person with a story in his head that plays out day in and day out. I must say I think he is a writer, and he does a great job of sharing his lovely story with his readers. He also put an extra touch of lovely illustrations for the readers added enjoyment.
Sometimes a love is so powerful that it curses those who dare try to tame it. And so starts the beautiful love story of Airith and Rapha. They are cyborgs, who were created and destined to kill the other, but end up falling in love, which in turn causes the world to be scorched by The Sadness. You have to read this novel to find out the ending.
The author says he is not a writer, but a person with a story in his head that plays out day in and day out. I must say I think he is a writer, and he does a great job of sharing his lovely story with his readers. He also put an extra touch of lovely illustrations for the readers added enjoyment.
August 2, 2012
I received this book in the Goodreads book giveaway.
This book is a novella so it didn't take me long to read. The story takes place in the future and the two main characters are cyborgs who share a heart. Even though they are cyborgs, they seem more human than machine. I have never read a love story like this before. The premise for the story is very unique and I like that.
It was hard to follow some of the chapter changes. For instance, chapter one is "Today", chapter two is "23 days ago" and chapter three is "547 days ago", etc. This was very confusing to me and made the story hard to follow at times, especially since it's a novella and each chapter is so short.
This book is a novella so it didn't take me long to read. The story takes place in the future and the two main characters are cyborgs who share a heart. Even though they are cyborgs, they seem more human than machine. I have never read a love story like this before. The premise for the story is very unique and I like that.
It was hard to follow some of the chapter changes. For instance, chapter one is "Today", chapter two is "23 days ago" and chapter three is "547 days ago", etc. This was very confusing to me and made the story hard to follow at times, especially since it's a novella and each chapter is so short.
February 24, 2016
This is a read 2 review novel. I received for free from the author in exchange to read and review it.
it was an engaging read, very fast paced, very full throttle. i never got bored once, however it might have been better if it was more than 60+ pages, so much was crammed and an majority of the story was told to us, rather then shown. I did wish there was more interaction between Airith and Rapha. The characters were an bit underdeveloped but the ending pretty much ensures an sequel and the illustrations were beautiful.
it was an engaging read, very fast paced, very full throttle. i never got bored once, however it might have been better if it was more than 60+ pages, so much was crammed and an majority of the story was told to us, rather then shown. I did wish there was more interaction between Airith and Rapha. The characters were an bit underdeveloped but the ending pretty much ensures an sequel and the illustrations were beautiful.
April 9, 2012
Normally I am not a big fan of novellas - since they are so much shorter than a regular novel, there is less time to fully develop the characters and plot line. Airith felt like a complete story, with fully developed characters. Also, I am normally not a fan of present-tense writing, but it gives an urgency to the story that made it an engrossing read. The switch back and forth between past and present was a little disconcerting, though.
April 12, 2012
this was an interesting book. not the best, not the worst. i liked the charecters, but not how in one chapter it was today, the next 542 days earler. to much flashback. though the author apears to have lots of tallent. but, you can tell, no offence, the author has not writen many books.
July 27, 2012
Unfortunately, this story suffered from several grammar errors. I can forgive a few here or there, but given the length of the novella, there were simply too many. I would have liked to see less "tell" as well. This could be attributed to the style, but too much of anything is not usually a good thing.
That said, the structure of the story was interesting, with the chapters jumping forward and back to different points in time (measured in days). This was cool at first, but as it continued through the entire story, I was getting dizzy from the pendulum swinging. However, I did like the idea behind the story, and I think there could be potential for a full-length novel here.
That said, the structure of the story was interesting, with the chapters jumping forward and back to different points in time (measured in days). This was cool at first, but as it continued through the entire story, I was getting dizzy from the pendulum swinging. However, I did like the idea behind the story, and I think there could be potential for a full-length novel here.
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