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The Strange Fascinations of Noah Hypnotik
by David Arnold
Pretty typical YA book with easy writing and an interesting idea. I bought this book while I was on a trip. My boyfriend and I were shopping in a city nearby, I had to go to the bookstore like always and saw this book. I was eying it for a while so when I saw it I just had to buy it.
The story is about Noah and he strange fascinations. (like you couldn’t get that from the title.) Noah is a normal teen in a normal town in the US. He lives his normal life with his two best friends who happen to be siblings. All kind of things make Noah’s life the way it is. His friend loves DC comics. His friends and him decided to go to the same college. After a party and a fight with his friend something happens. Noah wakes up the next day and noticed weird changes in his life. His mother suddenly has a scar on her face. His friend is not a DC but a Marvel fan. To top it off his two best friends are planning to move across the country so they can go to a different college. Can Noah thing to the way they were, or does he have to live with the consequents?
I was pretty excited to read this. I know the author is a close friend to Adam and Becky. Since I love both their books I was hoping for a similar vibe with this one. For the most part I got it. The book is very easy to read. Even when I wasn’t feeling reading for a while at the beginning of the year this took me straight out of it. It made me want to pick it up again and again. Which is a good thing. The characters were lovely and I had a fun time while I was reading the book. The author makes you really care for the characters. I found the idea of the story interesting. Having a main character going through all these changes and figuring out what happened and how he has to deal with it was a good time.
Why this wasn’t a 5 star reading for me has to do with the fact that I wasn’t totally happy with how it ended. It felt like a cheap way out. Having spent an entire book with this situation to just have it end in an abrupt way feels a little lazy.
A fun book with a bit of a bitter ending. Don’t let that stop you from reading an entertainment story.
The story is about Noah and he strange fascinations. (like you couldn’t get that from the title.) Noah is a normal teen in a normal town in the US. He lives his normal life with his two best friends who happen to be siblings. All kind of things make Noah’s life the way it is. His friend loves DC comics. His friends and him decided to go to the same college. After a party and a fight with his friend something happens. Noah wakes up the next day and noticed weird changes in his life. His mother suddenly has a scar on her face. His friend is not a DC but a Marvel fan. To top it off his two best friends are planning to move across the country so they can go to a different college. Can Noah thing to the way they were, or does he have to live with the consequents?
I was pretty excited to read this. I know the author is a close friend to Adam and Becky. Since I love both their books I was hoping for a similar vibe with this one. For the most part I got it. The book is very easy to read. Even when I wasn’t feeling reading for a while at the beginning of the year this took me straight out of it. It made me want to pick it up again and again. Which is a good thing. The characters were lovely and I had a fun time while I was reading the book. The author makes you really care for the characters. I found the idea of the story interesting. Having a main character going through all these changes and figuring out what happened and how he has to deal with it was a good time.
Why this wasn’t a 5 star reading for me has to do with the fact that I wasn’t totally happy with how it ended. It felt like a cheap way out. Having spent an entire book with this situation to just have it end in an abrupt way feels a little lazy.
A fun book with a bit of a bitter ending. Don’t let that stop you from reading an entertainment story.