L C Barlow

This one was definitely not for me and it's not for the dark content involved either.
I don't actually mind dark in my books and actually read quite a lot of stuff that touches on the bizarre and just plain wrongness, but this just never manage to capture or even retain any of my attention and if I'm honest it was really bloody confusing and also at times rather boring.
If this wasn't a review copy I am sure this would have been a DNF, I persevered to see if it got any better for me.
This was told from the protagonists pov seven-year-old Jack after she is taken in by the mysterious and enigmatic cult leader Cyrus.
This cycles all the way from age seven up to seventeen giving us insight into Jack's strange and unusual childhood as she is taught by her new friend Roland everything she needs to know about killing.
This deals with themes that some readers might find objectable especially as Jack is so young when she begins her education of death.
Jack is a product of her upbringing and the seventeen-year-old Jack who chains smokes is proficient in death and also an addict is perhaps not a surprising end-game for the teenager but then add in a supernatural curve-ball in the shape of a mysterious creature held captive by her guardian in the mansion basement and this then becomes more about that age-old battle between good and evil and which entity will eventually come out on top here in regards to young Jacks inner battle.
I feel that though originally imaginative this lost points and by extension me in its actual execution.
It looked so good on paper but didn't for live up to its initial promise.
I believe there are two more parts to come after this but for me, this was the end of the line.
There was nothing technically wrong with the writing itself this really was just a strange one that I didn't enjoy.
I voluntary reviewed a copy of Pivot (Jack Harper Trilogy #1).



Reviewed By Beckie Bookworm
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This one was definitely not for me and it's not for the dark content involved either.
I don't actually mind dark in my books and actually read quite a lot of stuff that touches on the bizarre and just plain wrongness, but this just never manage to capture or even retain any of my attention and if I'm honest it was really bloody confusing and also at times rather boring.
If this wasn't a review copy I am sure this would have been a DNF, I persevered to see if it got any better for me.
This was told from the protagonists pov seven-year-old Jack after she is taken in by the mysterious and enigmatic cult leader Cyrus.
This cycles all the way from age seven up to seventeen giving us insight into Jack's strange and unusual childhood as she is taught by her new friend Roland everything she needs to know about killing.
This deals with themes that some readers might find objectable especially as Jack is so young when she begins her education of death.
Jack is a product of her upbringing and the seventeen-year-old Jack who chains smokes is proficient in death and also an addict is perhaps not a surprising end-game for the teenager but then add in a supernatural curve-ball in the shape of a mysterious creature held captive by her guardian in the mansion basement and this then becomes more about that age-old battle between good and evil and which entity will eventually come out on top here in regards to young Jacks inner battle.
I feel that though originally imaginative this lost points and by extension me in its actual execution.
It looked so good on paper but didn't for live up to its initial promise.
I believe there are two more parts to come after this but for me, this was the end of the line.
There was nothing technically wrong with the writing itself this really was just a strange one that I didn't enjoy.
I voluntary reviewed a copy of Pivot (Jack Harper Trilogy #1).



Reviewed By Beckie Bookworm
https://www.facebook.com/beckiebookworm/
www.beckiebookworm.com… (plus d'informations)