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A review by krysley
Pulse by Jeremy Robinson
2.0
Looking for a little action/adventure, my usual go-to author is Matthew Reilly but having read everything he has written I was ready for a new author. I decided to try Pulse by Jeremy Robinson because it had exactly what I was looking for--essentially a blow-em-up, action flick-type of book. Well, I sort of got what I was looking for.
Overall I don't think the plot was that horrible but I think the writing could have been a little better. Robinson liked to throw in similes every chance he could get and it tended to really put me off my rhythm. At times, the similes seemed to be very juvenile and all I could think was, "Really?" This really drove me nuts. By the end of the book I couldn't wait to finish it--and not in the good I-can't-wait-to-find-out-what-happens-next way.
I also thought that Robsinson's main characters were very one-dimensional. I wanted to get to know them better--especially Bishop because I felt that he had a great backstory. But for me King fell a little flat and very few of the characters seemed to have any depth to them. I would like to see more of Anna Beck and get to know the Chess Team better. I'm reading a Chess Team book, I want to know about them without having cheesy lines getting in the way.
I ended up giving this book two stars because though I wasn't crazy about this book, it also wasn't horrible for me. There were a few moments when I really enjoyed it and was hanging on every word but toward the end those were few and far between. An average book for me would rate three stars but this was slightly below average for what I was looking for.
Overall I don't think the plot was that horrible but I think the writing could have been a little better. Robinson liked to throw in similes every chance he could get and it tended to really put me off my rhythm. At times, the similes seemed to be very juvenile and all I could think was, "Really?" This really drove me nuts. By the end of the book I couldn't wait to finish it--and not in the good I-can't-wait-to-find-out-what-happens-next way.
I also thought that Robsinson's main characters were very one-dimensional. I wanted to get to know them better--especially Bishop because I felt that he had a great backstory. But for me King fell a little flat and very few of the characters seemed to have any depth to them. I would like to see more of Anna Beck and get to know the Chess Team better. I'm reading a Chess Team book, I want to know about them without having cheesy lines getting in the way.
I ended up giving this book two stars because though I wasn't crazy about this book, it also wasn't horrible for me. There were a few moments when I really enjoyed it and was hanging on every word but toward the end those were few and far between. An average book for me would rate three stars but this was slightly below average for what I was looking for.