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The House Of Grey - Volume 1 (2000)

by Collin Earl(Favorite Author)

3.59 of 5 Votes: 3

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English

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Paranormal Fantasy

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House of Grey

review 1: The House of Grey started off as a Podcast, and the early chapters definitely feel like it. The prologue's writing sounded more like a Podcast than a book, which was a bit disconcerting - what works audibly doesn't necessarily translate well to the written word. It's why movies or video games being made into books usually require a separate writer. They're two very different mediums. The editing smoothed out as the book went on, but the first few chapters were almost painful to read.The story is supposed to take place over six books. It really doesn't feel like that's necessary. The first part of the story was so short, it took me *maybe* an hour and a half to read it. The series probably should be closer to 3 books. It would feel more fleshed out that way.Not a lot gets a... morenswered in The House of Grey. The main character has amnesia (of course), and a lot of the strange things about the school and Monson never get any sort of answer. That's another area where combining books would have helped. This doesn't feel like the first part of a story - it feels like the first half of the first part of a story.The meta jokes were occasionally cute (Casey comparing their life to a story, for example), but I swear I had to read "Holy Hannah freaking Montana" twice before I realized that yes, that was actually something a character said. Seriously. That actually happened. *sits down and cries*I'd complain about the cliffhanger, but again, it didn't really feel like a cliffhanger. It felt like someone took a book, and cut it down the middle. There was no reason for the book to end where it did, how it did, except to drag the series out for as long as possible.I would also like to question Monson's supposed intelligence and brilliance when he can't even figure out who "M.P." is. I very much wanted to bludgeon him the second he discovered those two sets of initials. I can't remember the male's initials, which is why I didn't include his. But it's incredibly, painfully obvious who they are.Mr. Gatt's class sounds exactly like something I would take. I was sad when it ended so suddenly.I really do want to see where all of this is going.
review 2: I think this could be a very interesting series, but not a whole lot happens in this first book. There's a lot of just regular kind of high school stuff (trying to find classrooms, meeting teachers, classes, students).It starts with some sort of academic decathlon with two boys against each other, the defending champ and a freshman. The freshman wins. There is some sort of magician watching from the back of the room.Moves forward in time and Monson Grey is on his way to a prestigious private high school, called Coren University, on scholarship. Monson has spent months and months in the hospital after a horrible accident that has left his whole body scarred and his memory in pieces.Monson finds out that he is the boy who won the academic decathlon and therefore an all-inclusive scholarship to the school. He is called "Horum Vir" or "The Hero" as his title. On his first day he meets what will become his good friends, Cassius, who wants to be called Casey, and Arthur, who wants to be called Artorius. Both are very nice boys, obsessed with fencing and football and Casey is well-trained in martial arts.The accident is revealed as some sort of terrorist attack at Baroty's Bridge where 300 people were killed and Monson is the only survivor.Monson is picked on by a lot of people (mostly upperclassmen who are trying to feel superior) and when he is attacked at one point he gets very angry and releases some kind of unknown angry energy that scares the bejeezes out of the boys and makes them run away. But Monson has no idea what he did or how. There is one girl, Taris, who is super nice to him and she happens to be the most popular girl in school.In the end Casey is asking Monson about his martial arts training but Monson doesn't remember it. So Casey tells him he has been in some sort of "special" training for years and decides to test Monson. Monson responds like he has had training also and somehow knows that Casey is exhibiting at least 5 different styles of fighting. Just when Casey is about to show him chakra energy something weird happens...and the book ends. less

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