A review by romankurys
I'm from the Sun: The Gustafer Yellowgold Story by Morgan Taylor

2.0

No. I could not wait for this to finish. It was dreadful.

The only thing that makes me give this 2 stars, instead of 1, was this one song that is still playing in my head and the fact that Gustafer and I both dislike raisins.

"I'm from the Sun...blah blah blah".

I was bored most of the story and all the singing drove me absolutely bonkers.
It was like a musical. I understand a song here and there, but every 10 minutes?

Why? Just why?

I hated just about every other song here, but to be fair, I am hardly a target audience for this story, so my own fault for picking it up.

Plot: 1

The description sounded pretty good to me. Something different, original. I enjoy exploring every now and then and venturing out of my usual range. This one, however, was a mistake. I guess comes with the territory of venturing out and exploring, huh?

The plot was utterly boring to me. Nothing about it interested me or kept me going. I do read quite a bit of Middle Grade and YA titles, and there are a ton that I love, but this one was just a big miss. All I cared about was for it to come to an end since I do not leave stories unfinished.

Its the principle of the matter for me.

Sun here is basically Earth. Everything works exactly the same with minor differences, like head shape and the fact that everyone loves raisins. Also something about Sunling hearts. I don't remember what anymore. I was just plowing through it to put it behind.

Characters: 2

Run of the mill protagonist, a couple of bullies that bully him, a sympathetic girl that cheers him on, a family that has their own ideas about Gustafer's future without asking him and a Sun's "legend" that moved into the neighborhood.

All felt standard, same...run of the mill. Blah Blah Blah.

Setting: 1

Same problem I described with the plot. Sun was just not different enough. There was so much here that could have been awesome. Instead, we are stuck with Earth as we know it and every behavior we know here is there on the Sun. Everyone looks similar to us, except their heads. And this random love of raisins was driving me crazy. Also, does not help that I cannot stand raisins.

That was one thing Gustefer and I had in common. We both can't stand raisins.
That's it. Nothing else.

No recommendation here. Just run away.

Roman "Ragnar"