Gather Marked (Soul Guardians #1) Curated By Kim Richardson Accessible In File
pride myself on reserving judgment on novels until I've finished them, Leaving books unfinished leaves a bad taste in my mouth until I get around to read them in full, and I don't think it's
fair to review a book you haven't completely read, just in case the end compensates for some of the flaws.
But for once in my life, I find myself unable to make myself finish a book, It was that bad. I'mthrough it and i just can't make myself finish it,
First off, there's no content in this book, It almost completely consists of dialogue, and that's it, We don't need the crappy commentary, mostly consisting of "Oh my god! Oh my god, I can't believe I'm doing this!" or "Crap! crap! crap!" usually in capital letters.
And I'm not kidding when I say it was pretty much all just dialogue, Come on, Kim Richardson, you're giving us the mere skeleton of a story where's the flesh and bones Were you never taught how to write more than a few lines without someone talking
Speaking of speaking, the dialogue itself is simply terrible.
I've honestly never read such melodramatic, poorlydone dialogue, Let me pull out a few gems, pulled exactly from the text and completely unchanged:
"Oh, my God! Oh, my God! Oh, my GOD!" pg
"And I thought monkeys were the ones on crack!" pg
"Ha! Take that! Stupid Mark! You've been zapped!" pg
"AHHHHHH!" multiple occurrences clearly, writing "he/she/it screamed/shrieked/screeched/howled" was too hard
"Wow! I'm like a super hero.
A superhero chick!" pg
"YOU'RE MARKED! Only demon spies are Marked, Don't try to fool me again, traitor!" pg, apparently when the author realized she could use italics
These are just a tiny, tiny fraction pulled from a few random pages.
Not to mention the terribly undeveloped characters, who manage to go the entirepages I read without ever developing any semblance of a personality except for as follows:
All archangels except for Raphael are big, scary, bureaucratic assholes.
David McGowan is a cocky, incompetent, shallow moron,
Kara Nightingale is a weak, incompetent, shallow moron,
So, let's go on to our main character, a blackballetflatwearing sixteenyearold artist whose mom is a guardian angel, because why the hell not.
She also has the mental maturity of a twelve year old,
Oh, and Kim Richardson doesn't want us to forget the fact that Kara has no boobs, because that little fact is apparently important.
This is a reoccurring theme throughout the novel: Kara thinks she's unattractive and plain mostly because of her "tomboyish figure" and the fact that she was never visited by the "boobfairy.
" Also, David is good looking, Readers are reminded of these facts constantly throughout the novel, Nothing else seems to matter, despite that they're in Heaven Horizon, where most people would assume that it doesn't matter whether you have tits or not.
At one point, Kara says the following: She hated herself for being so sensitive, so typically female, Good one Kara. I've become one of those girls I hate, No, darling, you've been one of those girls one of those empty headed, banal, vapid idiots the entire time.
pages before that, Kara thinks that "perhaps he was embarrassed and hated himself for kissing a girl whose feminine curves had been flattened by a giant spatula.
"
Aren't you excited by the prospect of reading about a sixteen year old's insecurities and how she never gets over them
Not to mention, that Kara is a classA moron.
Despite living in Heaven Horizon, surrounded by people with tattoos on their foreheads and various primates, she seems to be completely unable to grasp the fact that she's dead as a doorknob.
She somehow manages to completely forget the fact that she's a "guardian angel" now, despite being inundated with reminders,
A few more things:
The first 'bad guy' we are introduced to, Benson, hates David solely because David was responsible for Benson's friend's death.
Somehow, that's not supposed to be a valid reason for hating someone,
The elevator monkey gimmick was stupid, Flat out retarded. Please stop. It wasn't funny, at all, I can't even express how stupid it was, The only things that can be remotely humorous when it comes to elevators are as follows: old people, music, and farts.
Note that "primates" are conspicuously missing from that list,
You don't learn to swordfight after one practice session, or even two or three or ten, This is a recurring problem in fantasy novels, Knock it off.
If David was Kara's GA, why did he ask her how he died Either the author decided to randomly stick that in there, or she forgot about it.
A note to the author: "You're" / "Your, " Please learn the difference. I can't finish this, If this book has gone through the hands of an editor I'll be very surprised, If it has the editor needs to be fired,
The writing was juvenile and stilted, therefore preventing the story to flow, It got worse as the story progressed useless details were thrown at the reader while at the same time having serious pacing issues.
We meet the main character Kara running towards her own presentation when she gets hit by a bus, goes to Horizon and then becomes one of the guardian angels, in short GA yes, I was rolling my eyes at that.
Immediately after that Kara is sent on her very first mission with her "teacher" David, a snarky bastard who has no respect for authority.
We are told nothing of Kara except that she was on her way to a presentation when she died, that she has a best friend and that her mother can see demons which is why she thought of her mother as being insane.
Because of that it's impossible to connect with Kara, especially because she doesn't waste a moment's breath about her friends and family if they might miss her nor does she really grieve about losing her life.
She even goes so far as to say that she "should be happy to be here" in Horizon, Come again
Furthermore the book suffers from serious pacing issues as we are immediately thrown into the action without details about the workings of Horizon.
And no one would send a guardian angel on a mission without giving them proper instructions first lives/souls are at stake after all! Marked, by Kim Richardson, is the first book in the Soul Guardians series.
Its aimed at teens and young adults, and a point in its favor is that it retains a PGrating.
No sex. Not much language. I really appreciate an author who considers the age of the protagonist and the readers as far as content goes, and I hope the rest of the series continues in the same vein.
I kept reading to the end which is another point in its favor because Ill drop a book like a hot biscuit for all sorts of reasons.
However, the theology of angels is extremely flawed, so students of the Bible are going to have to put what they know about Heaven to the side.
Im not much for stories about angels and demons, anyway, but I was looking for guardian/hero books, So At least Richardson treated her setting with energetic enthusiasm that made it kind of fun,
The main character is Kara, a sixteenyearold art student who has bad timing with her cell phone and meets her demise in a messy fashion on the first couple of pages.
The author really starts things off with a bang, Thats not a spoiler its on the back cover, so calm down, Turns out shes been chosen to be a guardian angel, Her introduction to Heaven reminded me of the bureaucracy to be found on planet Vogon Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, but at least the author let her MC ask questions without getting slapped in the face for thinking.
Karas mentor is a youngish guardian angel GA named David, Hes all the predictable things: blond, blueeyed, hot, selfimportant, cocky, and reckless, David annoyed me until the very end of the book, For those who read the rest of the series, I truly hope he “grows up” as it goes along,
Of course of course, theres a hint of forbidden romance, But in other departments, particularly setting and tertiary characters, this book is highly original and fairly entertaining,
A nice twist at the ending and a gentle cliffhanger bring this in at,stars. Honestly, I probably will not reread it because, as I stated up top, angels and demons are not my preference.
But if they are YOUR preference, give it a go, Creí que soportaría este libro, pero, oye no, es que no, Lo dejo acá, con apenaspáginas, porque dudo poder leer más,
Debería empezar hablando de la trama, pero creo que es de suma importancia mencionar el POCO trabajo editorial que tiene este libro, es que nadie lo reviso antes de ser publicado! nadie, faltas de ortografía, mal estructurado, lineas de dialogo poco claras, es que todo en cuanto a trabajo editorial respecta esta mal en este libro.
Ahora, la trama, por favor, por favor, no había un tema más cliché para ser explotado Estoy harta de los ángeles sexys con musculos demasiado grandes y protoganistas tan planas que una planta haría justo el mismo trabajo.
Principalmente este libro trata de Kara, que es super cool y tiene espectacular cabello largo eso dice el libro, una chica común y corriente, con una madre descuidada y un padre muerto si les suena a Hush, Hush o a otra saga juvenil es pura concidencia, de verdad quien, y no es ni spoiler, muere tras un terrible accidente luego es trasportada a Horizonte, donde la muy buena de Kara es escogida para ser un ángel guardian ajá, un ángel guardian y salvar el alma de los mortales, no sin antes cruzarse con un mono que opera ascensores sí, de verdad lo hace, hombres que predicen el futuro en bolas gigantes eso ya parece un episodio de Gravity Falls, y claro, su apuesto y sensual compañero ángel que dije ya antes que es guapo y que tiene mejores musculos que Thor la acompañara en la travesía de salvar las almas mortales de los demonios.
Y esta, es TODA la trama, O al menos hasta donde logre soportar esto,
La narración en este libro es ridicula, desorganizada, en un momento la protagonista se encuentra en un lugar y al siguiente está saltando tomada de la mano del guapo coprotagonista a una piscina, las descripciones son vagas y superficiales, y no sabes realmente qué carajos está pasando.
Ay.
En resúmen: no, no, no, Solo parece una novela de Wattpad que fue publicada en formato ePub, cosa que no debió ser hecha, Por favor, parad en el momento que aparece el mono que opera ascensores, de verdad, .