The Gift of the Bad Guy The Gifters Saga Book 1 eBook Alexandra Erin
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In a world where some people are born with special gifts that make them stronger, faster, or smarter than others and allow them to perform impossible feats, it seems only natural that some people would choose to use those gifts for good while others would evil, thus setting up the now-familiar conflict between heroes and villains.
Of course, the reality of a thing rarely resembles the fantasy. But some people are willing to really work for it... get ready to see a day in the life of a professional antagonist.
The Gift of the Bad Guy The Gifters Saga Book 1 eBook Alexandra Erin
The concept of this story was so cool, it just made the disappointment worse.I originally got the preview, and it piqued my interest enough to pay the whole 99 cents for the full copy. The first four chapters were great. They set the stage for the world of heroes and villains, introduced the main character, and had some pretty cool interactions. My only gripe there would be the meandering pace - it seemed like every time the character did something, no matter how minor, it was followed by a paragraph or ten of internal monologue. It got a bit repetitive.
I will say that the author could really use an editor, if only to get rid of typos (ranger instead of range), awkward constructions like "when first Rick joined the league," and to clean up a bit of the excess verbage filling out sentences (an abundance of "basically" and "just" bloats the sentences that aren't fragments beginning with "and, "but," or "or.")
The first four chapters would have gotten 3 or 4 stars, if she'd continued the plot to build up a climax and resolve it. The ending (or lack thereof) destroys the story.
First of all, I want to clarify - this is not a novella. This is not the first part of a saga. In my opinion, this should not have been published because it would best be described as the first 5 chapters of a novel. The author would have done better to finish writing the novel itself and publishing it as a complete work.
The problem with publishing the first five chapters of a novel is that you introduce the characters and the plot...and that's it. There is no climax. There isn't even the buildup to a climax. There is simply an introduction with no resolution. Even stories in a saga have resolutions to some of the plot lines...or at the very least, development of the plot lines. This story introduces everything and builds on nothing. The ending advertises "Volume Two" as if this story were in itself a complete volume.
Secondly, the character of Anne needs a bit of tidying up. She's presented as a cute, professional, well spoken woman who can say things like "you are too rude for words" unironically, yet casually uses phrases like "piss on our legacy." It seemed out of place.
And now...chapter five. Let me preface this by saying I only read half of chapter five. Chapter five is a graphic sex scene, and not even a very good one. As I said before, when the main character does something, we get an internal monologue. This time, the internal monologue is a philosophical, abstract pondering about sex. In the middle of a graphic sex scene. Right.
The author begins chapter five by using the word "f***ing" at least twenty times, at least once in every other paragraph. I get it. It's shocking and transgressive to use the F word. We also get "boobs" and "tits" (a pandering to the 13 year old boys who read comic books?), "flaming dick," "finger-banging," and the c-word to describe a woman's genitals, which I found particularly distasteful. I should probably mention that I was reading this on my phone at the hair salon while getting foils put in (side note: the story is the perfect length for this), and part of the reason I skipped it was because I didn't want my stylist to look down and see a screen full of badly written porn. There really should be some mention of the language and content in the book description, because the preview chapter doesn't give a hint of it. Anyway, I'm not sure who considers an ambush of sailor style cursing to be an appropriate introduction to erotica, but maybe someone got off on it.
So I skipped the second half of chapter five to get back to the story. Imagine my surprise when there was nothing. Literally, nothing. There was no ending to this story. The author threw out a bunch of interesting plot points and did nothing with them.
I'm sure she will build on the story in "volume" two, and I'll probably buy it when it comes out since it's only 99 cents. But I find it horribly amateur to go to print with the first few chapters of a novel and market it as a novella. I'd love to see the plot of this fleshed out and resolved. I hope the author can deliver, because I'd love to give the next one more than a one star review.
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The Gift of the Bad Guy The Gifters Saga Book 1 eBook Alexandra Erin Reviews
I thought it was excellent. Without giving spoilers, I can say loved the craft that went into the development of a believable superhero premise, its politics, the romance, and the surprises that turned comic book stereotypes on their heads.
For those who have read it (and aren't subject to spoilers), I wanted to share that the following actually happened [...] . I don't know if life imitated art, but at least they showed convergent evolution.
My biggest complaint with The Gift of the Bad Guy is that it's too short (5 chapters)!
The book presents a look at a relatively uneventful day in the life of a "gifter", someone with a superhero-like talent. One of Alexandra Erin's major strengths is world-building. This is a world much like ours, but with heroes and villains, and Erin has carefully thought out the probable response of mundane humans to the existence of "gifters". It might be a wee bit of a rosy scenario (no forced "cures" like in X3), but there are hints that it's taken a while for gifters to get society to accept them.
The book loses a star from me because it concludes with an unnecessary and graphic sex scene. I mention this for the benefit of readers who aren't familiar with Erin's body of work; this type of scene is common, so I knew what I was getting into. I'm able to enjoy Erin's writing despite these scenes because I love everything else, especially the world-building, so much, but it remains frustrating to me that a whole chapter that could have been spent on exploring the world was spent in a bedroom. (Granted, the chapter does begin with some interesting notes on the nature of sex between gifters and the attitude of non-gifters toward the idea; Erin is very good at weaving character development and world-building into this sort of scene. But after we receive that information, we get graphic descriptions, which I could have easily done without.)
Nevertheless, I strongly recommend this book to people who enjoy superhero stories, and I look forward to reading more about the titular Bad Guy.
This novelette had me alternately cackling about how great the idea was, and bemoaning that I hadn't come up with it first. The first person narrator is interesting and entertaining, but doesn't feel trite or gimmicky, which is a problem I have frequently with first-person narrators. I especially loved the premise, with superheroes and villains rigged as in professional wrestling, but the way Alexandra Erin fleshed out the whole little world and economy of the idea--as well as having characters who didn't feel like stock caricatures--is what really sold me on this story.
If I recall correctly, this story is also why I had to interrupt my reading to explain to my roommate why I was complaining about an author being so good. I enjoyed this story so much, it made me angry.
It is short, though, and I don't know if everyone would appreciate the somewhat irreverent approach to a genre many are very attached to the current form of, ie, superhero stories. But for people who want a different approach to examining what real-world superheroes would look like, this story is definitely an interesting read.
The concept behind the story is great and as another reviewer said the first 4 chapters are great (forgiving the typos). The 5th chapter however, while fitting the story, needed something after it as buffer for those of us who like to skip the sex scenes of books.
The concept of this story was so cool, it just made the disappointment worse.
I originally got the preview, and it piqued my interest enough to pay the whole 99 cents for the full copy. The first four chapters were great. They set the stage for the world of heroes and villains, introduced the main character, and had some pretty cool interactions. My only gripe there would be the meandering pace - it seemed like every time the character did something, no matter how minor, it was followed by a paragraph or ten of internal monologue. It got a bit repetitive.
I will say that the author could really use an editor, if only to get rid of typos (ranger instead of range), awkward constructions like "when first Rick joined the league," and to clean up a bit of the excess verbage filling out sentences (an abundance of "basically" and "just" bloats the sentences that aren't fragments beginning with "and, "but," or "or.")
The first four chapters would have gotten 3 or 4 stars, if she'd continued the plot to build up a climax and resolve it. The ending (or lack thereof) destroys the story.
First of all, I want to clarify - this is not a novella. This is not the first part of a saga. In my opinion, this should not have been published because it would best be described as the first 5 chapters of a novel. The author would have done better to finish writing the novel itself and publishing it as a complete work.
The problem with publishing the first five chapters of a novel is that you introduce the characters and the plot...and that's it. There is no climax. There isn't even the buildup to a climax. There is simply an introduction with no resolution. Even stories in a saga have resolutions to some of the plot lines...or at the very least, development of the plot lines. This story introduces everything and builds on nothing. The ending advertises "Volume Two" as if this story were in itself a complete volume.
Secondly, the character of Anne needs a bit of tidying up. She's presented as a cute, professional, well spoken woman who can say things like "you are too rude for words" unironically, yet casually uses phrases like "piss on our legacy." It seemed out of place.
And now...chapter five. Let me preface this by saying I only read half of chapter five. Chapter five is a graphic sex scene, and not even a very good one. As I said before, when the main character does something, we get an internal monologue. This time, the internal monologue is a philosophical, abstract pondering about sex. In the middle of a graphic sex scene. Right.
The author begins chapter five by using the word "f***ing" at least twenty times, at least once in every other paragraph. I get it. It's shocking and transgressive to use the F word. We also get "boobs" and "tits" (a pandering to the 13 year old boys who read comic books?), "flaming dick," "finger-banging," and the c-word to describe a woman's genitals, which I found particularly distasteful. I should probably mention that I was reading this on my phone at the hair salon while getting foils put in (side note the story is the perfect length for this), and part of the reason I skipped it was because I didn't want my stylist to look down and see a screen full of badly written porn. There really should be some mention of the language and content in the book description, because the preview chapter doesn't give a hint of it. Anyway, I'm not sure who considers an ambush of sailor style cursing to be an appropriate introduction to erotica, but maybe someone got off on it.
So I skipped the second half of chapter five to get back to the story. Imagine my surprise when there was nothing. Literally, nothing. There was no ending to this story. The author threw out a bunch of interesting plot points and did nothing with them.
I'm sure she will build on the story in "volume" two, and I'll probably buy it when it comes out since it's only 99 cents. But I find it horribly amateur to go to print with the first few chapters of a novel and market it as a novella. I'd love to see the plot of this fleshed out and resolved. I hope the author can deliver, because I'd love to give the next one more than a one star review.
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