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A Life For Nicholas (The Nicholas Chronicles) (2013)

by Matt Zachary(Favorite Author)

3.47 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

148208225X (ISBN13: 9781482082258)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

series

The Nicholas Chronicles

review 1: 1.5 stars. This book is written in an overly simplistic manner. My assumption is that the author was attempting to capture the mindset of a thirteen/fourteen year old but it is possible to do that without writing like one (and actually, the writing is too young even for that age bracket). This felt more like a detailed outline or a very rough draft than an actual story. It's all telling, no showing. No character depth, no real plot, just a series of events that ends in cliffhanger designed to get us to buy the next book. I'll pass.
review 2: Nicholas could be the poster child for foster care. Ignored and abused both physically and mentally by his peers and foster parents throughout the book. He makes a couple of solid friends along the way, but both are ripped ... morefrom his life in one way or another before the end. He’s actually slightly more normal than he has any right to be considering what he’s been through. There was potential for a better story here than the one that is on the pages. Completely rushed, unmatached timelines and several inconsistencies left something to be desired here. Nicholas gets into a fight at school, okay wait.. Nicholas is ganged up on at school by homophobic classmates and defends himself, only to be kicked out of his current foster home almost immediately due to his ‘bad’ behavior. Huh? Then he refers to the last home he’s in at the end of this book as ‘no different than any of the others’, when in fact it’s completely different. For once he is actually wanted and treated appropriately. Again, Huh?I really wanted to like this book, Nicholas was such a diverse type of character. But sadly the inconsistencies in the story coupled with the urgency to get to the ending were off putting and ruined it for me. less

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