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Spirit Guide Saga #1
Forgemaster
Life is fickle, short and unfair. Everyone had bad days. Death is the end... or is it?
Ethan finds this out on his worst day in life and gets the truly rare second chance after being fired, lost his grandparents, finds his girlfriend sleeping with his vindictive brother and then gets crushed to death by a semi trying to save a girl from that same fate. In death he meets the angel of his life, but learns all myths have some fact basis and Fate himself wasn't ready for Ethan to die this day and offers a second chance. Ethan takes the offer over the alternative and must fight. he gains power over fire and must use it to fight for his own sense of justice. His life will forever never be the same and it's time to crank up the heat!
Ethan finds this out on his worst day in life and gets the truly rare second chance after being fired, lost his grandparents, finds his girlfriend sleeping with his vindictive brother and then gets crushed to death by a semi trying to save a girl from that same fate. In death he meets the angel of his life, but learns all myths have some fact basis and Fate himself wasn't ready for Ethan to die this day and offers a second chance. Ethan takes the offer over the alternative and must fight. he gains power over fire and must use it to fight for his own sense of justice. His life will forever never be the same and it's time to crank up the heat!
- GenresFantasy
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First published September 20, 2014
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December 16, 2017
That was a good read! (sorry for the pun, lol)
The story is like a blend of certain fantasy and anime I've read in my teen but executed in a more adult setting. Yu Yu Hakusho is the anime the author must have been inspired by. Kanade the love interest remind me of Botan, the spirit guide which help bring soul to the spirit world. It was nostalgic to read this. Certain situation weren't necessary (and I'm speaking about a certain witch in the novel), the author kinda over dramatized it, but it's ok I still love it.
The story is like a blend of certain fantasy and anime I've read in my teen but executed in a more adult setting. Yu Yu Hakusho is the anime the author must have been inspired by. Kanade the love interest remind me of Botan, the spirit guide which help bring soul to the spirit world. It was nostalgic to read this. Certain situation weren't necessary (and I'm speaking about a certain witch in the novel), the author kinda over dramatized it, but it's ok I still love it.
January 10, 2018
Bottom-line Upfront: Horrible grammar and sentence structure. Stilted dialogue. Verbose descriptions. Unrealistic character behaviors and interactions. Do not waste your time.
The other reviewers Ida and Erwin were correct when they said that the writing was stilted and hard to read. It's like the author has English as a 2nd language. There is something wrong or awkward with virtually EVERY sentence. It looks exactly as if a late elementary student wrote a story using a thesaurus -- you know, adding words they think mean the same thing while completely failing at connotation, context, and convention.
Worse, his descriptions are intensely verbose. That is to say he spends two to three times more words and sentences than necessary describing something. He also spends time describing things that are fairly inconsequential. This is all compounded by how terrible his prose is. It was actually painful to read.
The author's emotional quotient also seems fairly low since he can't make characters speak, behave, and interact like real people. The plot seems like it might have been acceptable (though it had an equal chance of being bland and uninspired) but try as I might, I couldn't get too far enough into the book to ascertain one way or another.
I strongly recommend people stay away from this book. Even for people with only grade 4 or 5 English, who may not be as hard hit by how terrible the writing is should steer clear. Reading well-written text is one of the best ways to improve your language skills. It doesn't matter if it is a text book or a novel, so long as the language used is good. Consequently, reading novels like this will degrade your English language proficiency because it will acclimate you to poor English.
The other reviewers Ida and Erwin were correct when they said that the writing was stilted and hard to read. It's like the author has English as a 2nd language. There is something wrong or awkward with virtually EVERY sentence. It looks exactly as if a late elementary student wrote a story using a thesaurus -- you know, adding words they think mean the same thing while completely failing at connotation, context, and convention.
Worse, his descriptions are intensely verbose. That is to say he spends two to three times more words and sentences than necessary describing something. He also spends time describing things that are fairly inconsequential. This is all compounded by how terrible his prose is. It was actually painful to read.
The author's emotional quotient also seems fairly low since he can't make characters speak, behave, and interact like real people. The plot seems like it might have been acceptable (though it had an equal chance of being bland and uninspired) but try as I might, I couldn't get too far enough into the book to ascertain one way or another.
I strongly recommend people stay away from this book. Even for people with only grade 4 or 5 English, who may not be as hard hit by how terrible the writing is should steer clear. Reading well-written text is one of the best ways to improve your language skills. It doesn't matter if it is a text book or a novel, so long as the language used is good. Consequently, reading novels like this will degrade your English language proficiency because it will acclimate you to poor English.
July 11, 2024
It's a great story. The first 200 pages or so had no issues. But all of a sudden, the grammar and punctuation went down hill...fast. Not sure what happened, but it all got steadily worse. Anyways, since I love the story and characters so much I gave it 4 stars.
September 2, 2015
Didn't get far into this book.
The writing was stilted and hard to read.
Most of the conversations felt wrong in their grammar, stiff and boring.
As did the rest of the sentences - most of them were dragged out and kind of lost their purpose.
The information given about the people felt forced and stuffed into the story.
I might give this another try at some point.
The writing was stilted and hard to read.
Most of the conversations felt wrong in their grammar, stiff and boring.
As did the rest of the sentences - most of them were dragged out and kind of lost their purpose.
The information given about the people felt forced and stuffed into the story.
I might give this another try at some point.
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