Take a photo of a barcode or cover
airbud 's review for:
The Body Scout
by Lincoln Michel
A decent read. The Body Scout was certainly entertaining albeit pretty predictable. There are lots of little things that really annoy me about this book. First off, I do not think the author is that big of a baseball fan. Which is kind of a big deal being that the book is centered largely around the game. Just subtle things like calling a pitchers pitch a ‘throw’ or describing the act of pitching as ‘throwing.’ There were a few instances where the word ‘throw’ should have been replaced with ‘pitch’ and it would have made the whole book sound more accurate. Also there is minor part in the book I had to re read several times because it made no sense. The batter definitely got 4 strikes at the plate. The author must think a foul ball (with less than 2 strikes) constitutes a ball. Because the sequence went something like foul ball, strike, ball, strike, strike and then the batter was called out. I could be remembering that incorrectly it could have been the batter was walked on 3 balls. Either way I remembered re reading it several times and deducing the author must think a foul ball is marked as a ball. It was the only way to make it make sense. So that was definitely off. Also something I found very annoying were the names. Terrible names that did not pop off the page and were a slog the read. Especially the main characters brother JJ Zunz. Mostly referred to as just ‘Zunz.’ This name just feels awkward when you read it and I have no idea how it’s supposed to be pronounced. I just assumed it’s pronounced ‘Zunes’ but who knows it’s never explained. It’s just a bad clunky name and I think the author thinks it sounds futuristic but honestly it’s just bad. Other than that it was decent. Wasn’t a huge fan of the dialogue. Very cheesy. The whole book is cheesy but sometimes that’s fun. I thought I was really going to hate it at the beginning when the author said someone’s eyes were wide like a pair of pop flys. Just over reaching on baseball similes that don’t make sense. Ended up being a pretty engaging book and I enjoyed it for the most part. Just hard to get through some parts.