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A review by argyledinosaur
The Innocent by Yasung Ko, Junichi Fujisaki, Avi Arad
2.0
UPDATE: I apparently read this book a year ago TO THIS DAY, Which I did not realize until I went to add this to my DNF list. So... I mean, that's how memorable it was.
That was disappointing. I really love The Crow and this sounded similar, so I picked it up during a sale. While this isn't The Crow, it is similar enough that I'm going to be drawing comparisons through the whole review.
This was disappointing because the story was such a good idea, but then there's no time spent trying to get you attached to the characters at all. There's one character that I had no idea who it was through most of the book until the lawyer (I think) says "Oh! He's the bodyguard!" and it isn't difficult to make sure your readers know who they're reading about. Different characters were calling the main character different names (Johnny and Ash) which kind of makes sense in the context of the story, but it's also unnecessary. The protagonist was kind of just arrogant and annoying. There doesn't always need to be character growth, but aside from getting himself erased from literally everything to stop the bodyguard from hurting anyone else (which was out of vengeance, not heroism), he was barely helpful and he just had a terrible attitude. I felt bad for the angel that was tasked with watching him because the stuff he did somehow caused her to get punished, which would make more scars appear on her body much like Nightcrawler from the X-Men. I don't necessarily have to love a protagonist to enjoy a book, but I do need to at least be able to tolerate them, and he was bordering on intolerable. Granted this whole review should be taken with a grain of salt because I was expecting something similar to the Crow, and it's nothing like that.
TL;DR: Awesome idea, poor execution.
That was disappointing. I really love The Crow and this sounded similar, so I picked it up during a sale. While this isn't The Crow, it is similar enough that I'm going to be drawing comparisons through the whole review.
This was disappointing because the story was such a good idea, but then there's no time spent trying to get you attached to the characters at all. There's one character that I had no idea who it was through most of the book until the lawyer (I think) says "Oh! He's the bodyguard!" and it isn't difficult to make sure your readers know who they're reading about. Different characters were calling the main character different names (Johnny and Ash) which kind of makes sense in the context of the story, but it's also unnecessary. The protagonist was kind of just arrogant and annoying. There doesn't always need to be character growth, but aside from getting himself erased from literally everything to stop the bodyguard from hurting anyone else (which was out of vengeance, not heroism), he was barely helpful and he just had a terrible attitude. I felt bad for the angel that was tasked with watching him because the stuff he did somehow caused her to get punished, which would make more scars appear on her body much like Nightcrawler from the X-Men. I don't necessarily have to love a protagonist to enjoy a book, but I do need to at least be able to tolerate them, and he was bordering on intolerable. Granted this whole review should be taken with a grain of salt because I was expecting something similar to the Crow, and it's nothing like that.
TL;DR: Awesome idea, poor execution.