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Nicholas Eternal (The Wayward Saviors, Book One)
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“As a Christian, I grew reading the Bible and still do regularly, so I am very familiar with the stories and characters. This book uses several Biblical characters and tenets of faith, but with tweaks. St. Nicholas is the main character. I've read other stories where St. Nick (Santa Claus) is related somehow to the Bible, or a Fae, immortal, etc. Some of the other tweaks are the standard. If someone is in Purgatory, it's just because they can't accept the grace they've been given. This reminds me a lot of the show Lucifer where hell is punishment, but you can get out if you believe hard enough. Also, in this world, prayer is energy and that energy can be felt by the person being prayed for, it's bolstered their faith and strength. Not how I believe prayer works, but it is an interesting fiction mixing fantasy with Biblical elements and historical figures like Knghts Templar.
Nick rescues children and teens and women. It's the mission he's been called to since his death in the 2nd century Greece. He feels the pull toward something happening with a child and steps into another dimension to come to the rescue. Sometimes he doesn't make it in time. Hence he drinks a lot of ouzo.
The author does such a good job of making us see the emotional side of having a gift or calling. Anyone who has a strong calling understands that sometimes it's painful. I'm a teacher and there are days I cry because I can't control a class or I see a child in pain. I am a singer and I have sung at dozens of weddings, and plenty of funerals too. The flipside is also true that sometimes I sing at a wedding I know will end in disaster and sometimes I sing at a joyful funeral.
Noory also rescue children, teens, and women and tries to get them to a shelter or the help they need.One night, she and Nick rescue the same girl. They meet and team up to stop a plan that involves taking away free will.
There are twists I never saw coming, angst that made me tear up, enough action to keep me interested, and the plot is just plain good. I really can't wait to read the next one.”
“Might change my review later, but as of right now, I straight want to DNF this and I’m only at 39 percent. I understand nothing, there’s no world building, I feel nothing and it’s like someone ripped out the first thirty pages of the book and left us thrown into the middle of the story. It’s so disconnected and disjointed like it was written in a fugue, given a grammar edit and then put on the internet with zero developmental edits.”
“Got to 14% and gave up. While the plot idea has potential, nothing was grabbing my interest for me to want to find out what was going on.
The characters are flat, almost lifeless, lacking personality and descriptions. When something happened, I had no feelings because there was nothing given to me by the characters to relate to. And when something else happened the characters were all like, 'ok, cool'. There was no shock, no explanation, they were all fine with it, but it was as if the author left a blank page for the reader.
In both of these cases, details were left out. The reasoning might be in the next chapters, but there's nothing in the previous chapters to make me want to find out 'cause I'm bored.
It could have earned one more star for the potential, but there's just so much missing.
1 Star”
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