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A review by emily_loves_2_read
Many Are Invited by Dennis Cuesta
2.0
Many Are Invited
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Genre: Fiction
Format: Kindle eBook
Date Published: 10/6/22
Author: Dennis Cuesta
Publisher: Celestial Eyes Press
Pages: 242
Goodreads Rating: 3.29
I requested a digital advanced readers copy from NetGalley and Celestial Eyes Press and providing my opinion voluntarily and unbiased.
Synopsis: A housewarming party ends in tragedy. . . Steve Galanos, a native Midwesterner, reflects on his time in and near Silicon Valley during the 1990s, a time when the two-digit year emerged as the Y2K problem, the burgeoning Internet fueled the expansion of the New Economy, the dot-com bubble created unseen prosperity and real estate frenzies. Yet it’s a housewarming party, held in late 1999, that affects him the most.
My Thoughts: The chapters were short in this book, which I tend to gravitate towards. It is just easier to stop at the end of a chapter. The tragic event occurs very late in the storyline, the first is filled with the Y2K bug (I definitely remember the country during that time), politics, and religion. Not that those are bad topics, just topics that I generally would not read. I believe the backstories of the characters could have been filled in less space and more expansion on the tragic event and the aftermath. The tragic event should open up the story and then work backwards from there, then the Y2K bug, politics, and religion would not have seemed out of place. The ending of the book just stops, not a cliffhanger, and not a resolution. It’s not a bad read, just not what I expected or hoped it would be. That could be on me as I may have misinterpreted the synopsis.
⭐️⭐️
Genre: Fiction
Format: Kindle eBook
Date Published: 10/6/22
Author: Dennis Cuesta
Publisher: Celestial Eyes Press
Pages: 242
Goodreads Rating: 3.29
I requested a digital advanced readers copy from NetGalley and Celestial Eyes Press and providing my opinion voluntarily and unbiased.
Synopsis: A housewarming party ends in tragedy. . . Steve Galanos, a native Midwesterner, reflects on his time in and near Silicon Valley during the 1990s, a time when the two-digit year emerged as the Y2K problem, the burgeoning Internet fueled the expansion of the New Economy, the dot-com bubble created unseen prosperity and real estate frenzies. Yet it’s a housewarming party, held in late 1999, that affects him the most.
My Thoughts: The chapters were short in this book, which I tend to gravitate towards. It is just easier to stop at the end of a chapter. The tragic event occurs very late in the storyline, the first is filled with the Y2K bug (I definitely remember the country during that time), politics, and religion. Not that those are bad topics, just topics that I generally would not read. I believe the backstories of the characters could have been filled in less space and more expansion on the tragic event and the aftermath. The tragic event should open up the story and then work backwards from there, then the Y2K bug, politics, and religion would not have seemed out of place. The ending of the book just stops, not a cliffhanger, and not a resolution. It’s not a bad read, just not what I expected or hoped it would be. That could be on me as I may have misinterpreted the synopsis.