Brief synopsis (no spoilers):
Children start disappearing in a town in North Carolina in the early 1980s. A young father of a Mormon family moves into town, working to keep bread on the table. Most of the book is spent exploring computer science and membership in the Church, while the real plot takes a back seat until the end.
Category:
Fiction
Why I chose this book:
Orson Scott Card
My personal opinion:
There are LOTS of reasons not to read this book. If you don't like language, stay away. It's not the "heavy" stuff, but there's more than there should be. If you are a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and you don't like any negativity around the Church or its members, stay away. If children being harmed is a trigger for you, stay away. If you don't like getting close to a major character, only to have them killed off, stay away. I cannot recommend this book to anyone, really, unless none of those warnings bothers you, and you're a fan of Stephen King novels.
This is one of the most esoteric novels I've ever read. In order to understand everything in the book, you have to be a member of the Church that has been in a leadership position. You also have to have a background in, or more than a basic understanding of, computer science. You also have to have children. That's a really small sliver of humanity.
It was definitely not one of my favorites, and I doubt I'll ever read it again. But the author is a phenomenal storyteller, and I basically could put the book down. Even when some of the plot twists were predictable, I still couldn't stop reading the thing. I also couldn't fathom how one character could possibly provoke so much rage in so many people in such a short time, all while basically trying to be a "good person".
Warnings
Language: regular, but mostly the milder words
Violence: children being harmed
"Adult" situations: yes, some with more detail than I like
Death: yes, including major character(s)
Movie rating equivalent:
R
Protagonist description:
Step is a young father, just trying his best to provide for his family and be a good human
Point of view of story:
First-ish. It flipped from third to first on a regular basis
Book length:
Medium-long
Story flow:
Great, gripping story
Grammar and spelling issues:
I believe that someone scanned and OCR-ed a paper version of the book, to make the Kindle version. There were many spelling issues.
Character connection (no spoilers):
None
Children start disappearing in a town in North Carolina in the early 1980s. A young father of a Mormon family moves into town, working to keep bread on the table. Most of the book is spent exploring computer science and membership in the Church, while the real plot takes a back seat until the end.
Category:
Fiction
Why I chose this book:
Orson Scott Card
My personal opinion:
There are LOTS of reasons not to read this book. If you don't like language, stay away. It's not the "heavy" stuff, but there's more than there should be. If you are a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and you don't like any negativity around the Church or its members, stay away. If children being harmed is a trigger for you, stay away. If you don't like getting close to a major character, only to have them killed off, stay away. I cannot recommend this book to anyone, really, unless none of those warnings bothers you, and you're a fan of Stephen King novels.
This is one of the most esoteric novels I've ever read. In order to understand everything in the book, you have to be a member of the Church that has been in a leadership position. You also have to have a background in, or more than a basic understanding of, computer science. You also have to have children. That's a really small sliver of humanity.
It was definitely not one of my favorites, and I doubt I'll ever read it again. But the author is a phenomenal storyteller, and I basically could put the book down. Even when some of the plot twists were predictable, I still couldn't stop reading the thing. I also couldn't fathom how one character could possibly provoke so much rage in so many people in such a short time, all while basically trying to be a "good person".
Warnings
Language: regular, but mostly the milder words
Violence: children being harmed
"Adult" situations: yes, some with more detail than I like
Death: yes, including major character(s)
Movie rating equivalent:
R
Protagonist description:
Step is a young father, just trying his best to provide for his family and be a good human
Point of view of story:
First-ish. It flipped from third to first on a regular basis
Book length:
Medium-long
Story flow:
Great, gripping story
Grammar and spelling issues:
I believe that someone scanned and OCR-ed a paper version of the book, to make the Kindle version. There were many spelling issues.
Character connection (no spoilers):
None
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