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Dwarf Complete
Life is a circle. Dwarf Complete follows the story of Lawrence Dodge, a freedom fighter against an unjust police force, in a dystopian future. Everything is a reaction. Lawrence's actions cause the police to split and create a new police force. That police force creates machinations. In short, in the end, he becomes a Dwarf. This mythological creature that digs up and alters souls instead of gold. He fights against more machinations dragons and other beast this newer police force develops. This history continues on until the end where everything comes back to the beginning.
Remember, in any 12 point font, follow this quest at under 400 pages, closer to 98.
Remember, in any 12 point font, follow this quest at under 400 pages, closer to 98.
417 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 5, 2015
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October 7, 2015
This book is rather short but it took me a long time to read and an even longer time to write a review I thought would be honest but fair to the author.
Let me first begin by explaining this book’s plot.
Dwarf Complete is a futuristic novel centering on a young male who’s fallen into trouble with the law. You can call it an urban Robin Hood, where the protagonist attempts to bring justice to the citizens of his neighborhood by performing illegal acts.
It is an interesting story because the main character actually gets turned into a weapon which happens to be a dwarf. When I read that in the description my jaw dropped because…what? I was only interested in this book because I wanted to see how on earth a dwarf would fight crime.
Well, there’s more than crime in this book. There are orcs and magic, and a politically corrupt criminal justice system. Dwarf Complete strikes home as an urban novel. It strongly speaks to the injustices faced by minorities at the hands of the police force—very similar to the struggles faced in our society today. It definitely plays on the emotion we see in the book and the need for a leader who will stand against a system determined to take him and his followers down.
We have a gutsy main character named Lawrence Dodge who constantly gets into trouble. He struggles with finding the right thing to do in his situation, we watch him grow and we watch him become a leader and a man. There was some character development there that was nice to read, it’s one of the better points of the book that I think readers will enjoy.
Overall, the concept and story was very intriguing and a good twist on a classic tale. I think I wouldn’t be wrong to call this piece an urban fantasy.
I would recommend this book to those who enjoy urban novels and fantasy. You might even enjoy this if you like futuristic, dystopian novels too. I’d say just give it a chance, don’t knock it until you try it.
Now, I’ve said the good but I still want to tell you the bad and a little bit of the ugly.
While I was reading this piece I noticed a fairly significant amount of errors. I’m normally one to overlook a misplaced comma, a misspelled word, even a missing word. As long as the story is intriguing, I can forgive a mistake or two, or three, or even four. I’ve found mistakes in New York Times Bestsellers, I’ve noticed missing words in the works of internationally famous authors and time honored classics. The point is, we’re all human and we all mess up—traditionally and self-published alike. But Dwarf Complete had so many errors I felt compelled to address them in my review as a fair warning to other readers.
The errors weren’t just a few misspelled words, actually I don’t think any words were misspelled or even missing. My issue was with the formatting. There were a lot of inconsistencies with paragraph breaks, indentations, poor use of quotation marks, and more. This book was nice but the editing was distracting, it could have used a basic proofread. That would have made it a lot better and probably would have earned at least another star in my 3/5 rating.
All in all, I think this book deserves a chance. It really isn’t bad, it just needs another read-through. In the author’s defense, Chandler did let me know that he was continuously editing his work. Who knows? Maybe he will re-release this book with a better polished format.
*I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review*
Let me first begin by explaining this book’s plot.
Dwarf Complete is a futuristic novel centering on a young male who’s fallen into trouble with the law. You can call it an urban Robin Hood, where the protagonist attempts to bring justice to the citizens of his neighborhood by performing illegal acts.
It is an interesting story because the main character actually gets turned into a weapon which happens to be a dwarf. When I read that in the description my jaw dropped because…what? I was only interested in this book because I wanted to see how on earth a dwarf would fight crime.
Well, there’s more than crime in this book. There are orcs and magic, and a politically corrupt criminal justice system. Dwarf Complete strikes home as an urban novel. It strongly speaks to the injustices faced by minorities at the hands of the police force—very similar to the struggles faced in our society today. It definitely plays on the emotion we see in the book and the need for a leader who will stand against a system determined to take him and his followers down.
We have a gutsy main character named Lawrence Dodge who constantly gets into trouble. He struggles with finding the right thing to do in his situation, we watch him grow and we watch him become a leader and a man. There was some character development there that was nice to read, it’s one of the better points of the book that I think readers will enjoy.
Overall, the concept and story was very intriguing and a good twist on a classic tale. I think I wouldn’t be wrong to call this piece an urban fantasy.
I would recommend this book to those who enjoy urban novels and fantasy. You might even enjoy this if you like futuristic, dystopian novels too. I’d say just give it a chance, don’t knock it until you try it.
Now, I’ve said the good but I still want to tell you the bad and a little bit of the ugly.
While I was reading this piece I noticed a fairly significant amount of errors. I’m normally one to overlook a misplaced comma, a misspelled word, even a missing word. As long as the story is intriguing, I can forgive a mistake or two, or three, or even four. I’ve found mistakes in New York Times Bestsellers, I’ve noticed missing words in the works of internationally famous authors and time honored classics. The point is, we’re all human and we all mess up—traditionally and self-published alike. But Dwarf Complete had so many errors I felt compelled to address them in my review as a fair warning to other readers.
The errors weren’t just a few misspelled words, actually I don’t think any words were misspelled or even missing. My issue was with the formatting. There were a lot of inconsistencies with paragraph breaks, indentations, poor use of quotation marks, and more. This book was nice but the editing was distracting, it could have used a basic proofread. That would have made it a lot better and probably would have earned at least another star in my 3/5 rating.
All in all, I think this book deserves a chance. It really isn’t bad, it just needs another read-through. In the author’s defense, Chandler did let me know that he was continuously editing his work. Who knows? Maybe he will re-release this book with a better polished format.
*I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review*
October 7, 2015
Somewhere in here there was an interesting premise, but it unfortunately gets lost in chaotic writing. This book is very hard to follow in terms of time, spanning about 10 years according to the dates given, while characters age 17 years or more in that same span. The book needs a lot of editing work, more detail fleshed out, streamlined character descriptions, and less wooden dialogue. As I said, there's a fairly interesting premise underneath it all that is just not executed very well.
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