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Mr Renard (10 KP) rated Ready Player One in Books

Jul 25, 2017  
Ready Player One
Ready Player One
Ernest Cline | 2011 | Fiction & Poetry
3
8.9 (161 Ratings)
Book Rating
Promising concept buried under clumsy craftsmanship
A great concept that should in theory be catnip to an 80s kid such as myself. However this is to pop culture junkies what Fifty Shades of Gray was to S&M enthusiasts: poorly written, drawn out fan fiction that is in dire need of a more competent editor.
The 80s pop culture references are so clumsily laid on, they lose any fun they may have held for me after the first chapter.
Sure, the author has done his research, but this reads as if it was written by a machine trying to approximate human emotion and interaction; technical pitches for gadgets yet to be commissioned in place of wit, story and heart.

Very disappointing.
  
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Erika Kehlet (21 KP) rated Fatal Fiction (A Book Barn Mystery, #1) in Books

Feb 21, 2018  
FF
Fatal Fiction (A Book Barn Mystery, #1)
Kym Roberts | 2016
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
When Charli returns to her hometown of Hazel Rock, Texas, it’s only meant to be a quick trip. When first she and then her father are accused of murder, however, she decides to hang around until she can clear her dad’s name.

The barn-as-a-bookstore setting and an armadillo named Princess with the run of the place would have been enough to pique my interest in this cozy, but in Charli I also got a believable, fallible, and perfectly human heroine. She has her issues with the town and the people that she thought she’d left in the past, but doesn’t let it stop her from doing what’s right. I’m looking forward to more adventures with Charli and Princess!