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Picking Up The Ghost (2011)

by Tone Milazzo(Favorite Author)

3.71 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1926851358 (ISBN13: 9781926851358)

languge

English

genre

Paranormal Fantasy

publisher

Chizine Publications

review 1: I agree with another reviewer that this is a strong debut, with a lot of magic--all kinds of magic! that somehow feels grounded. I love the bits of wisdom that the hero, Cinque, picks up from various ghosts. One tells him, "I won't do this thing for you because it's the doing that's important...I am offering to make you stronger, strong enough to solve your own problems." And another says, "But the most important magic ain't magic at all, it's how you present yourself...Confidence...." And as Cinque goes on his journey and encounters truisms like these, he grows in confidence. Well written with a lot of humor. Enjoyable read.
review 2: I received this ARC in e-reader format through Net Galley.Let me start off by saying that this book had the potential to be som... moreething different and good...but in saying that, I believe that it fell short. There were very awkward sentence structures and a few grammatical errors that really took away from the root of the story. I am hoping the final edit will get some of those taken care of.You can read a summary of this on Goodreads, so I won't waste time on that. I will say that the meat and potatoes of the story was good. Cinque, a young man living in a poor town, set out to find out why such strange things were happening to him. Outside of that, it was super confusing. There is one part where he becomes faceless and nameless and I believe it was WAY more complicated than it needed to be. I also think that the story dragged in parts and I found myself wanting to skip forward to see the action. It is my opinion that there were too many characters with weird names that weren't introduced properly, lots of lose ends that weren't tied up and a few inconsistencies, including dialogue/speech. Maybe there weren't and I just missed something, but the point in all this was that the book was extremely hard to follow from beginning to end. The characters were not ones that you fall in love with and they seemed to develop the "answers" out of thin air.I hate giving bad reviews and I'm an open minded reader, for sure, but I did not enjoy this book at all, and it's a shame. I am interested to see what the actual released book will be like. The premise and set up to such a thing would have been great but based on the book that was received, I can only give 2 stars. less

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