Catch On The Up Edited By Shilo Jones Presented As File

gritty, psychopathic and addictive, About money laundering in a North Van property deal, the story fell apart a bit at the end but all in all, a fantastic read.
High five! I'm not sure exactly how to rate this, I did not enjoy reading this book, But I don't think it's poorly written, The chaotic style felt heavy handed but different/interesting,

I will say that the author commits one of my biggest pet peeves, He writes that Knight St, connects the American border and several suburbs of the Lower Mainland to Vancouver when Knight St, only connects Vancouver and Richmond, It's a small thing, but it drives me crazy when a book that is all about its location can't get the details right.


Overall this book offers some humorous and valid critiques of Vancouverites, However, at times the book feels as pretentious as the people it is trying to criticize, As a lifelong BC resident, I find this book accurately captures the 'feel' of Vancouver and its surrounds through the perspectives of the different characters as developed.
The brothers were actually my favourite these two are pulled directly from the Fraser/Lynn Valley tough kids that I would encounter growing up.
Shilo nailed these two characters, And of course it all revolves around real estate a fraught topic in BC since the closing of Expo.
I received a copy of this book through the Goodreads Giveaway program in exchange for an honest review.
This was a tough, slow, meandering read, As other reviewers noted, it reads like stream of consciousness drugaddled rough draft and is too long, There were nuggets of plot that were intriguing and a few good paragraphs in the second half that I may refer back to, but overall would not recommend.
Sometime last year, I remember saying to a Vancouver friend that the real estate situation here was so fed up, I wished someone would make some art about it to help me understand or cope with what was going on.
Maybe write a novel or something, And then, voila! On the Up landed in stores, This book is a chaotic whirlwind of drugfuelled capitalism gone wrong, hyperlocal references, and sharp digs at the mindlessly proVancouver affirmations spouted by the business sector and other members of society who have drunk the KoolAid and are desperately still trying to convince themselves that this is, as the slogan says, the Best Place on Earth.
Because if it's not, why are we all still here I would recommend this book to any current or exVancouverite who a can commit topages of what often resembles prose poetry, and b has connections to or feelings about the real estate sector.
I think many of this On the Up's finer points would, however, be lost on nonlocals, This book was confusing for me, The story is about money laundering through real estate, It was a very confusing story line for me, The end was disappointing.

I did not like the author's writing style, Short incomplete sentences through all POV narrations, Im not really sure how this book got published, I picked it up at Costco in British Columbia bc the story sounded interesting and it was set in Vancouver.
DNF this book dragged and I didnt care about what the characters were doing, Through the witty uncensored journey on On The Up, I loved the raw and charismatic journey of Jasminder, Carl and Mark as they fight through their circumstances head on.
Devouring the minds of the characters from their perspective in Shilo Jones's book gave me a new dream for my writing to be raw and mind boggling.



“I am the thing itself, Without idea or image, theory or ideology, Just an object in motion, Existing before the conscious mind, Thats how Im beginning to think of myself, One day I hope to stop thinking entirely, Thought removes us from our true selves, ”

On The Up captures the raw disclosure of grief, loyalty and heartaches, Within the characters lives, you meet so many people that you can connect with on both a mental and emotional level.
I loved witnessing the minds of the characters as the storyline was fairly different from anything I have read recently as the way the book is presented and thought out is talked about differently.
As many books have the narrator who talks about what they are doing, this book is narrated from the characters perspective and so are the actions so it was fairly different but I loved every moment.


Overall, I would give this book/because I found it a raw and real read.
The characters were amazingly relatable and I loved the plot of the entire story as it kept me intrigued the entire time.


Great first voice for Shilo Jones book, I received an ARC through Goodreads,

I was not a fan of this book, It felt very scattered and not a lot of background was dived into or provided until much later on.


I did not connect with any of the characters, Mark and Carl were on drugs most of the time, so whatever they were saying and doing didn't make a lot of sense.
I honestly was not a fan of their story for the most part, until much later in the book.


Carl's narrative was so wacky, over the top and confusing that most of the time I don't know what is real and what is drug induced, plus he makes zero sense and yet he is tolerated because he is like an eccentric genius or something.
WTF. The real story of what lead him to go to jail, to lead the discovery of something that made him millions and his beef with the shadowy bad guy seems messy and never fully well explained.


Mark. I don't think we truly know what really happened all those years ago that left him owing a debt to his brother.
Besides being injured in the war, we don't know his entire history with his girlfriend and daughter and why he chose to stay out of the country but only came back at the request of his brother.


Jasminder is an interesting one, She had a the potential to be a journalist but threw it all away to get closer to the people who murdered her brother a few short years ago.
Her story got more interesting as it went along, I wondered what happened to her afterwards though,

Overall, it was an interesting story but it wasn't quite fleshed out as well as I would have liked.


This book needs to be edited down, There is no reason why it needs to bepages, ESPECIALLY for a debut novel in the crime genre.
Keep it short and snappy, show people what youre made of, and then go for the epic mafia saga next time.


Vancouver isnt that interesting, Sorry West Coast folks. You havent convinced me yet,
The cover is most definitely the coolest part of this book, Well done Terri Nimmo.

This book was the embodiment of the Sysphian myth, Is that what “on the up” means Up the hill Pushing this boulder of a novel Forever and ever

Anyway, dont waste your time on this one, readers.
This was not a straightforward four, I completely hated the book for the firstpages, the plot was vague and the writing style was over the top, in your face, like REM's "It's the end of the world" playing too fast and too loud , please make it stop!!!!!

So, either I adapted to his style of writing or things slowed down enough for me to enjoy the writing, the lastpages felt more diluted and coherent and I could fully appreciate what went into this book.
Whoever said sarcasm is the lowest form of wit was wrong, Shilo Jones used it perfectly to convey humour, wisdom and truth,

for On the up, and let me be completely honest, one of them was for that cover.
Thank you Goodreads and Shilo Jones for the advance copy, .