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maciecret's review
4.0
all right boys and girls, I am effing back after 3 years of suffering in college and still in college, I started to indulge in my habit of reading again. And i don't regret it, my life has been a mess immediately after I stopped reading, such hiatus is not recommended. Reading makes me productive, it took my free time away from shallow entertainment like social media, and now since I started, my situation became either I read or study. Anyway, not the point, let's go to this thrilling book Orphan Monster Spy
The cover and title don't do justice to the content of the book. The plot is exciting but I was skeptical due to the cover. It gives a parody type of feeling.
This was reviewed as "Disturbingly good, violent and thrilling" but as I read and came to almost half of the book, I find it light and a fine read. The violent and thrilling part did not come until... don't want to say it, just read and see or feel how this book will leave anyone hanging in the air.
All throughout the book, I kept asking myself, how would someone end this story, given that it is a stand-alone novel, (or not)?? It offers a lot since it was based on the history of violence on Jews under Nazi. It would be a difficult read. But the author really considered his audience/ or readers. He made it into a read that anyone can go along with.
Sarah, for one, is bullied yet the fierce type of protagonist. She has this character of I might be weak but I can do anything as long as I believe in myself and..girl, I tell you, she trusts herself. Because maybe, there's no one to be trusted other than herself.
**to be continued**
The cover and title don't do justice to the content of the book. The plot is exciting but I was skeptical due to the cover. It gives a parody type of feeling.
This was reviewed as "Disturbingly good, violent and thrilling" but as I read and came to almost half of the book, I find it light and a fine read. The violent and thrilling part did not come until... don't want to say it, just read and see or feel how this book will leave anyone hanging in the air.
All throughout the book, I kept asking myself, how would someone end this story, given that it is a stand-alone novel, (or not)?? It offers a lot since it was based on the history of violence on Jews under Nazi. It would be a difficult read. But the author really considered his audience/ or readers. He made it into a read that anyone can go along with.
Sarah, for one, is bullied yet the fierce type of protagonist. She has this character of I might be weak but I can do anything as long as I believe in myself and..girl, I tell you, she trusts herself. Because maybe, there's no one to be trusted other than herself.
**to be continued**
morj's review
adventurous
dark
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
sarahgirges's review
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
alexcozzey's review
3.0
This book was good! It follows Sarah and a man that she meets along the way. She was trained as a spy and she was planning on stopping the world war. She goes on a lot of different adventures that leads her to helping to stop the war. This book was really interesting in the beginning! It kept me intrigued but as the book went on I was getting lost and not as interested in the story but I finished it.
frostlywild17's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
oliwia_b_'s review
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
ari_reading_'s review
2.0
I didn't enjoy this, the start was ok but I found myself bored and skipping pages, I just didn't care for this book and WILL NOT be reading the SEQUELS.
jenniferrkent's review
2.0
Struggled with how it was written. Read the last 5/6 chapters in one night. Good ending though
jubaju's review against another edition
2.0
I'm taking off an entire star based on the fact that the main character calls herself a "dumb slut" at least fifty times in this book. If I have to read "dumme Schlampe" published in a YA book with my own two eyes one more time... And yes, it reflects her relationship with her mother, or you can interpret it any other way: as a loss of innocence in a young child, as how she sees herself after being neglected and called names by her mother, as proof of the book's dark themes; anything can have meaning if you want it to. Fact remains that I am 100 pages into the second book in this series and that it hasn't come up once; this is either a continuity problem or someone brought it up to the author. Also, it annoyed me.
Other than that, I didn't like the fact that some snippets were written in German. If you want the reader to be transported into 1939 Berlin, transport your reader, don't switch languages and use that as a crutch. Furthermore, does writing swear words in foreign languages keep the book's rating from going towards NA? There were a lot of those in a book marketed as YA. Not that it bothered me per se, it just felt cheap.
The plot itself dragged until the last 100 pages, and I didn't connect with the characters at all. Sarah was a bit of a Mary Sue while also being overly emotional in situations where a self-described "good spy" would have been cool and level-headed. Everything went well too often and she gave herself credit for surviving situations that were unrealistic. She should have died at least twenty times in this novel. And she was. What an amazing agent.
Matt Killeen tried to explore some very dark themes but never went in depth into any of them, while also glossing over most of the action. This book lacked something for me and left me disappointed. I will be reading book two because it'll be quick to get through and I want to see if thee is any maturing to the style and characterization.
Other than that, I didn't like the fact that some snippets were written in German. If you want the reader to be transported into 1939 Berlin, transport your reader, don't switch languages and use that as a crutch. Furthermore, does writing swear words in foreign languages keep the book's rating from going towards NA? There were a lot of those in a book marketed as YA. Not that it bothered me per se, it just felt cheap.
The plot itself dragged until the last 100 pages, and I didn't connect with the characters at all. Sarah was a bit of a Mary Sue while also being overly emotional in situations where a self-described "good spy" would have been cool and level-headed. Everything went well too often and she gave herself credit for surviving situations that were unrealistic. She should have died at least twenty times in this novel. And she was
Spoiler
drunk during the main mission and got saved by an under-developed side characterMatt Killeen tried to explore some very dark themes but never went in depth into any of them, while also glossing over most of the action. This book lacked something for me and left me disappointed. I will be reading book two because it'll be quick to get through and I want to see if thee is any maturing to the style and characterization.