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Faces In Time (2009)

by Lewis Aleman(Favorite Author)

3.08 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0980060559 (ISBN13: 9780980060553)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Megalodon Entertainment LLC.

review 1: I was so excited to get this book. I am a time travel junkie. It is my favorite sub genre in science fiction. I had high hopes for this novel yet I slogged my way through this. The author seemed to implore an omniscient narrator and third person. He doesn't pull off either. they blend together to cause a distancing for the reader. We are never allowed to get to close to any of the main characters, which consequently keeps us a said distance from the story itself. I never felt pulled in, in fact, quite the opposite, I felt at times a hand hold me back from getting to close. Unfortunately, I can't recommend this novel although I acknowledge that some people will not have this problem and enjoy immensely.
review 2: This is probably the most terribly-writt... moreen book that I have ever come across. I actually stopped reading it three times because of frustration at the style and competence of the author. The sole redeeming factor was that the story was fairly interesting. Funnily, the book seems to have been written in a schizophrenic fashion. You could read several paragraphs, and even a chapter, of reasonable prose, which would suddenly deteriorate into an over-flowery, inept style, almost as if a friend of the writer, (possibly a chimp), had taken the book and tried to inject some colour. Here is a very small example:' The hatless woman's appearance begins to tear at his chest as it no longer looks on with anger, but it quakes with violation.''For once he felt like he could behave as the person he'd always wanted to be and not have it be a venture into self-humiliation, but years of stifling himself and self-doubt have carved a deep trench of shy habits and familiar inhibitions for him to climb out. Since routine digs a steep ravine from constantly retracing its route, he should have known that any liquid would make the assent (sic) slipperier and more difficult. Yet he drank anyway.'Wow - I think its a case of metaphoritis!Saying all that - I did finish the story.... less

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