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Hold Me Closer, Necromancer (2010)

by Lish McBride(Favorite Author)

4 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0805090983 (ISBN13: 9780805090987)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Henry Holt and Company

series

Necromancer

review 1: Sebenarnya lumayan. Tapi ya gitu. Ga sampe suka. Mungkin karena dari awal naratornya terkesan cewek banget (seperti pengarang dan penerjemahnya) padahal si tokoh utamanya cowok.Saya sebenarnya suka fantasi. Tapi ga sampe cerita mengenai kenyataan bahwa dunia kita ini bukan hanya dihuni oleh manusia dan jin, melainkan juga ada manusia jadi2an.Padahal kalo ttg manusia jadian, saya ga protes deh. Banyak. Ada yg jadian trus sampe nikah dan punya anak-cucu, atau jadian tapi ga ke mana2, atau ga jadi2 walau udah kenal lama #lah #curcol ;)
review 2: The premise would have been promising but the author's delivery is just tedious.Restricted emotion to emotionless, the whole book is just sterile. The talking head is an excellent example of how the characters have an abse... morence of emotion. It was an extreme event but the reaction is extremely bland. The world might end or something as the characters will barely notice it. The author might be writing about robots or aliens or something but I think the characters are supposed to be human, however, their behavior doesn’t really support that proposition. They might have taken antidepressant drugs or something.There are actually mention of emotions but it was mostly told to us. We are told that they are angry, or crying, or afraid but you can’t really feel it. I really can't see the characters to be feeling what we are told they are feeling. The emotionless tone might be a joke, sarcasm or something, or maybe the author is a robot, I don't know, but it makes the book so dull, unreal and difficult to relate.The prose is at best acceptable. Most times though it is just awkward and frustrating. I often skip them, disliking their feel. Just listen to this:“Ramon glanced around, trying to take in as much of her house as he could. All the walls I could see were done in earth tones—warm browns and greens—interspersed with photos and paintings. The house looked nice, not in an overly stylized way, but in a lived-in fashion. Dessa lived in a home, not a house. There’s a difference.”It is just very disconnected and unpolished. This is actually what I expect from a first draft, not a finished product. Guess the author isn’t really into editing.There also large amount of ranting in the book that is often annoying to read. There is also extreme attention to details at times, often in the middle important moments. It frustrates me so often that I feel like punching something.The dialogue isn’t any better. Actually it might be the worst fault of the book. The dialogue should help push the story forward, but many here doesn’t. It is often distracting and awkward and goes on to things that have no place in the story. There are parts where the dialogue is well but most contains a lot of unnecessary meaningless prattling that just seems to be meandering allover. Not to mention, they drag and slow down the pace of the story. There are even moment where there is no story at all, just incessant talking that goes no where. If the author wants to increase word count, there has to be better means than this.Overall, the dialogue just sucks and provide little insight to the characters or interest to the story as a whole. It just becomes a major obstacle instead of an asset. Most often I find myself skipping or distracted by somethings when I encounter the dialogues.The characters also lacks any marked individuality. Everyone seems to be made from the same mold with minor difference, usually just in appearance like say gender and age... and species, but aside from those, it is actually difficult to tell most characters apart. They are just so damn alike. Personality, language, behavior, thoughts, emotion (which barely exist in the first place)... not much difference. The book might as well be populated by clones.And then there was the large amount of annoying attempts in humor. The jokes just often turns out lame, cliché, unimaginative or just plain I-don’t-get-it. After encountering a number of them, I wished the author didn’t even try. There are people who would do love them, but not me.And of course the rather lame deus ex machina.And also ignorance. Pandas are solitary creatures and the author expect the three pandas to get together? Placing three pandas together in one area? Terrible decision. They would have been fighting to death if that was the case.And the dreadfully slow pacing. Why don’t the author try the accelerator for a change.The book will be greatly improved if the author cuts out three quarters of the book, after all, most of the book contains garbage. Coupled with the terrible prose, the book is barely bearable.And I just have to state here some ugly interior decoration:“We walked through a set of French doors to a small room that looked nothing like an office to me, except for the two heavily laden bookshelves. Lace curtains billowed from an open window, and the walls were what my mom would call a pale, soothing lavender.I didn’t see a desk or a computer, just a small glass coffee table, a teapot, and a few overstuffed chairs arranged around it.”Imagining overstuffed chairs flocking a small glass coffee table is just an affront to my senses. Who arranges furnitures like that? In the first place, placing overstuffed chairs in a small room isn’t sound. The author seems to be enamored with details but sometimes it is worthy not to describe too much.With terrible lack of insight, observation, imagination and extremely slow pacing, the rather promising premise turns out into an extremely mediocre work of fiction filled with rather dull extended prose and shoddy work. Even with all the fantastical elements, the poor delivery of the story just can’t bring anything fantastic to the fore. less

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