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A World Divided: Blazing City
It’s summer vacation, and Ryan Davidson is a seventeen-year-old suburban teenager. When he accidently stumbles into another world from inside his high school cafeteria, his reality is turned upside down and immediately thrown into peril. Friend or foe, enemy or ally, Ryan can never be sure of who to trust until the last pull to return home is just a withering flame of hope. The vile gothic city with its blood-red sky and terrible secrets are just the beginning of a dangerous and soon to be deadly journey that could end in absolute and utter annihilation of not just one world, but two.
372 pages, Paperback
First published October 26, 2015
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Jesse Roman
5 books122 followersJesse Roman lives in Canada. He's been writing fiction since high school and has a constant urge to tell stories from his vast imagination. When not writing books or creating YouTube videos, he's experimenting with cocktails, watching movies and getting lost in music. Tristan is his debut novel, and is available on Amazon Paperback, Hardcover, Kindle eBook, Apple eBook and Kobo eBook! *** Advance Reader Copies available for a limited time on BookSirens (https://booksirens.com/book/Y1ZABSL/Q...).
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May 13, 2023
I won this book in a giveaway and tried to start it multiple times. The beginning of this book was very slow for me, and it wasn't until the main character went through the portal into another world that it became interesting to me. I won this as an arc, so there were a few typos. But all in all, this was a good young adult fantasy book.
July 31, 2016
This is a tough one to rate. I'm showing 3 stars, but part of me wants to give it 2 stars. That seems too low, but I'm getting tired of handing out half-stars so I'm gonna round up. Writing a book is hard so this seems like a fair compromise.
Yeah, I had serious issues with AWD:BC. Consider this: a story that (underneath it all) shows signs of being well thought out and solidly paced but is written in a manner that is so fraught with grammatical errors, incorrectly chosen words (examples of what I mean, not pulled from the book: "He through the ball" "He walked threw the door"), and typos galore, that it's hard to actually absorb the story? Throughout my reading of this book, that's all I could think about. With a decent editor or two this book could be enhanced and massaged into something worthy of more than 3 stars, but at this stage that's all I can give it. It's not a bad book, at least I didn't think it was. A bit clumsy in parts, yep, but not bad. However, it was a very distracting book, and while I can ignore that some of the time, I can't ignore that all of the time. And believe me, this book has spelling/language/grammar issues scattered from cover to cover.
Overall a fairly frustrating read, mostly because of the book's high potential. This baby needed to gestate a month or two longer before being birthed. This is an indie book so there's nothing stopping Jesse from getting an editor involved with a future edition. Hopefully that'll happen. This was a decent start, but taking it to the next level will require outside help.
Good luck.
I received this book as a Goodreads Giveaway in exchange for an honest review. I honestly forgot to mention that this was a giveaway book. My bad.
Yeah, I had serious issues with AWD:BC. Consider this: a story that (underneath it all) shows signs of being well thought out and solidly paced but is written in a manner that is so fraught with grammatical errors, incorrectly chosen words (examples of what I mean, not pulled from the book: "He through the ball" "He walked threw the door"), and typos galore, that it's hard to actually absorb the story? Throughout my reading of this book, that's all I could think about. With a decent editor or two this book could be enhanced and massaged into something worthy of more than 3 stars, but at this stage that's all I can give it. It's not a bad book, at least I didn't think it was. A bit clumsy in parts, yep, but not bad. However, it was a very distracting book, and while I can ignore that some of the time, I can't ignore that all of the time. And believe me, this book has spelling/language/grammar issues scattered from cover to cover.
Overall a fairly frustrating read, mostly because of the book's high potential. This baby needed to gestate a month or two longer before being birthed. This is an indie book so there's nothing stopping Jesse from getting an editor involved with a future edition. Hopefully that'll happen. This was a decent start, but taking it to the next level will require outside help.
Good luck.
I received this book as a Goodreads Giveaway in exchange for an honest review. I honestly forgot to mention that this was a giveaway book. My bad.
June 8, 2016
For those like me who did not understand it, this book is a horror story. It is not a bit gritty, it does not have anything to do with reality, and it leaves you on a cliffhanger.
Ryan and his friends are a bunch of rather obnoxious teens, just selfish and privileged. They do what they want, when they want. When a lunch lady asks one of the kids to bring frozen patties back to the freezer before they melt and got wasted, the teen just says "No". Lovely, don't you think so? Then, Ryan is asked to do it, and he reluctantly accepts. He hesitates between dropping the meat behind a tree or bringing it to the freezer, but finally decides to be nice. Once in the school kitchen, he has to explore everything and gets pulled in another world.
The other world is very much the way I figure hell. From then on, everything gets terrible. This other world has a dark lord, their god, who can control people's minds and make them do what he wants. Fire and destruction expect you on every page, with murder and mayhem to complete it.
Will Ryan be able to go back home?
I'm not a big fan of the genre. There is enough sadness in the world without dreaming about more. So, it may be that horror lovers will like this book. I was upset by the lack of logic all along. Nothing really makes sense, magic is available and could be used so much better if the characters were thinking...
Another problem I had is the amount of typos, grammatical mistakes, or errors preventing the reader to know what is meant before reading, re-reading and checking it again. "Ever" and "never" don't mean the same thing, to give an example found many times here. Editor, where are you?
Ryan and his friends are a bunch of rather obnoxious teens, just selfish and privileged. They do what they want, when they want. When a lunch lady asks one of the kids to bring frozen patties back to the freezer before they melt and got wasted, the teen just says "No". Lovely, don't you think so? Then, Ryan is asked to do it, and he reluctantly accepts. He hesitates between dropping the meat behind a tree or bringing it to the freezer, but finally decides to be nice. Once in the school kitchen, he has to explore everything and gets pulled in another world.
The other world is very much the way I figure hell. From then on, everything gets terrible. This other world has a dark lord, their god, who can control people's minds and make them do what he wants. Fire and destruction expect you on every page, with murder and mayhem to complete it.
Will Ryan be able to go back home?
I'm not a big fan of the genre. There is enough sadness in the world without dreaming about more. So, it may be that horror lovers will like this book. I was upset by the lack of logic all along. Nothing really makes sense, magic is available and could be used so much better if the characters were thinking...
Another problem I had is the amount of typos, grammatical mistakes, or errors preventing the reader to know what is meant before reading, re-reading and checking it again. "Ever" and "never" don't mean the same thing, to give an example found many times here. Editor, where are you?
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