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3.24 AVERAGE
3.24 AVERAGE
"Find love, for love in a broken world will comfort you. Hold on to hope; it will sustain you. Have faith, for in the end it will save you."
This book started off shaky and lacked development, but it ended spectacularly.
This book started off shaky and lacked development, but it ended spectacularly.
"I have trust issues."
Right...I really do, when it comes to "dystopian" books. I've read another version of this tale and liked that one better. Did that stray my thinking or maybe make me like this one less - possibly.
But this one just never gets to the point. Even 200 pages in, you are still COMPLETELY guessing what is going on and who is doing what. By the time it got going, about another 80 pages later, I was so done with it all. It wasn't mysterious, just boring and annoying.
also, this book falls into one of my pet peeves - it would jump from narrator to narrator mid sentence, mid paragraph and/or mid chapter. I hate when I can't figure out who's who.
Right...I really do, when it comes to "dystopian" books. I've read another version of this tale and liked that one better. Did that stray my thinking or maybe make me like this one less - possibly.
But this one just never gets to the point. Even 200 pages in, you are still COMPLETELY guessing what is going on and who is doing what. By the time it got going, about another 80 pages later, I was so done with it all. It wasn't mysterious, just boring and annoying.
also, this book falls into one of my pet peeves - it would jump from narrator to narrator mid sentence, mid paragraph and/or mid chapter. I hate when I can't figure out who's who.
(By my 12-year old daughter.) I liked “Pulse” by Patrick Carman, but it had a very slow start. I kept waiting for it to start talking about a pulse and until then, it didn’t make a lot of sense. It was a little boring and had these random events occurring.
The main character is Faith Daniels, a teenager in high school in a world where books have been abandoned for Tablets. Faith and Liz go to the old grade school library, which is deserted, they read picture books – which in a world where everything is on a Tablet – makes them feel like they are in a different world.
Their lives don’t seem like anything special until something happens to Faith that changes everything. Once that happens, the book was a lot more interesting. There was a lot more action, and some fighting and I wanted to find out what happened.
Faith and Dylan were my favorite characters. If there is another book after “Pulse” I would want to read it to find out what happens to them.
The main character is Faith Daniels, a teenager in high school in a world where books have been abandoned for Tablets. Faith and Liz go to the old grade school library, which is deserted, they read picture books – which in a world where everything is on a Tablet – makes them feel like they are in a different world.
Their lives don’t seem like anything special until something happens to Faith that changes everything. Once that happens, the book was a lot more interesting. There was a lot more action, and some fighting and I wanted to find out what happened.
Faith and Dylan were my favorite characters. If there is another book after “Pulse” I would want to read it to find out what happens to them.
Patrick Carman creates a barren, empty dystopian world where citizens are forced to move into States so the planet has a chance to reverse the effects of Global Warming. Living in the barren, desolated leftovers of society are the last hold outs, those people who refuse the lure of the States. Faith Daniels and her friends go to school in a ghost town, addicted to their Tablets, going to school so that a "teacher" can monitor them while they watch their lessons.
Trouble arises in the wonder twins of Wade and Clara, genetic athletic freaks. Over the course of time, Faith discovers she has a Pulse and with the help of Dylan, Hawk and the Drifters she will uncover a plot to destroy the States and end the balance between humans and the planet.
This is a good read that features a great cast, especially the villainous Wade and Clara. I am looking forward to reading the sequel. This has the potential to be a great series.
Trouble arises in the wonder twins of Wade and Clara, genetic athletic freaks. Over the course of time, Faith discovers she has a Pulse and with the help of Dylan, Hawk and the Drifters she will uncover a plot to destroy the States and end the balance between humans and the planet.
This is a good read that features a great cast, especially the villainous Wade and Clara. I am looking forward to reading the sequel. This has the potential to be a great series.
This book had great potential, but then again don't most books? The problem with Pulse was not its concept nor was it the cover of the book or even its length. The two big problems that Pulse had were that it lacked any significant character development and it wasn't very well written (in my opinion). I personally found the characters in this book to be very cliche and quite honestly, a bit annoying. In addition to this, I personally didn't care for the author's writing style (however, you may have a different opinion). Pulse was very slow paced and lacked the action sequences that I was anticipating when I began reading the book. For example, when I read Pulse, once I had read past page 100, I found that the majority of the information about the plot I which had acquired was insignificant to the overarching story line. Lastly, I felt that the dystopian world of Pulse was not explained well at all. While it was an interesting idea to write about a dystopian world with telekinetic people, details about the world were not elaborated on in much detail and new concepts were only vaguely explained.
I hope you have found this review helpful....thanks for reading!
I hope you have found this review helpful....thanks for reading!
Pulse is a unique story set in the year 2051. I actually wanted to rate the book 3.5 stars. I enjoyed the story line and felt that the author did really well developing the characters. However there were times in the book that went a little slow for me and I found myself having to go back and reread some parts because either I wasn't understanding the concept or was lost. Yet, what I found the most interesting was how the author provided a futuristic world by using the technology we have today. I find that maybe our world could head in that direction but of course with a few differences. I find that each dystopian story I come across, it is interesting to me how they can imagine and perceive a new world based on some type of current reality with their perception of what they feel our world is facing today. Pulse is no different, a great story with unique twists and turns that will leave you wondering and imagining what our world will really be like in the year 2051.
Oookkkaaayyyy. The only excitement in this book took place maybe the last 10%. It's as if this book was written just to set us up for the second. There are no answers given up until the last segments and by then I was turned off completely. Characters were so boring. No joke. The only one who had some saving grace was Hawk. He's a cutie. Hot hero stud muffin mysterio boy had as much personality as a brick. Oh and cue Twilight for the creepy sleep watcher. Le sigh. If you need a sleeping pill, read this book before bed.
Overall I thought it was a well thought out book; however, some sentences did appear awkward to me. And I though the writer should have explained the concept and reasoning behind the States earlier because it didn't make any sense to me why they would abandon all the rest of the land. Besides that I thought it was a good read, loved the aspect of love towards the end.
I had been tremendously excited for this book when I got this. I was excited about the awesome cover and this really interesting concept. There were these people with the ability to use their minds to move stuff, not entirely different, but I'll bite this time to see if it was anything new. As excited as I was to read this, I wanted to DNF it several times.
The characters were entirely bland and didn't stand out. I guess it was cool that they could move stuff with their minds, but that was just about it. I did enjoy Hawk, her techie friend, but even he was creepy and weird how he would constantly be watching her. Faith was just irritating and so selfish, even when she was learning how to use her powers.
There was a sad attempt at a love triangle, but it all seemed convoluted and strange. It's always interesting in books that take place in the future because you wonder what type of technology they will come up with. This book had the added benefit of paranormal powers. By benefit, I'm using that term very lightly. There was this strange "drug" that they had which was a computer program that got you high. Cool right? How about the book making it essentially okay that one of Faith's Beau's used it on her.
I also really didn't understand the ending. Maybe I was just missing the entire point of this book, but I couldn't connect. I didn't like the plot, the characters or really anything about it.
The characters were entirely bland and didn't stand out. I guess it was cool that they could move stuff with their minds, but that was just about it. I did enjoy Hawk, her techie friend, but even he was creepy and weird how he would constantly be watching her. Faith was just irritating and so selfish, even when she was learning how to use her powers.
There was a sad attempt at a love triangle, but it all seemed convoluted and strange. It's always interesting in books that take place in the future because you wonder what type of technology they will come up with. This book had the added benefit of paranormal powers. By benefit, I'm using that term very lightly. There was this strange "drug" that they had which was a computer program that got you high. Cool right? How about the book making it essentially okay that one of Faith's Beau's used it on her.
I also really didn't understand the ending. Maybe I was just missing the entire point of this book, but I couldn't connect. I didn't like the plot, the characters or really anything about it.