Michelle

Sadly these poems weren't for me

I think they were a little too specific to British people, alcohol and bad men for my liking. I just couldn't relate to any of them.

Excellent book

In the first part we follow Juan, who is traveling with his son Gaspar after losing his wife. And all he wants is to protect his son from The Order, a secret Society.
Little by little we start understanding that this is not your typical father and son story, and there is a lot more going on. This book is filled with secrecy, hidden spirituality, occult, dark magic, politics and power.

Then we follow Gaspar, and other characters. We jump between different decades, bit by bit uncovering information and tying up dots.

My only complain is that despite this book being over 600 pages, you feel as is you are still missing 100 pages. You still have unanswered questions.

Good book

It is about friendship and love. Sam and Sadie, two soulmates.

Sam and Sadie have been friends during all their life, and during all their life they have had problems, miscommunication, fights and reconciliation. As someone who has had friends for over 10 years, I appreciate how believable their friendship is. The ability to reconnect seamlessly after months without talking to each other. Knowing someone more than you know yourself. Sharing hopes and weaknesses.

I also loved the absence of any romantic element between Sam and Sadie, showing that man and woman can be friends, and have a beautiful platonic friendship, without ending up together. Because what they have is more special than any relationship. Because they are soulmates. I believe in the concept of soulmates, not in the romantic way. But the fact that there is that one person who is going to “Speak your same language” and understands you and completes you in every way. And once such a connection is found, it becomes unbreakable, Even if you try, you won't lose it.

We follow Sam and Sadie as they become business partners at a young age, and it makes you hope that you can do that with your friends. Leave college and create your own video game. Also love how video games were referenced, the love and passion the protagonists feel towards video games, on how it saves them in different ways.

The only thing I didn't like was that some characters or stories felt incomplete, like, their problems and motivations were introduce, but they were never resolved. The best example I can put is where: SpoilerAlert The friend dies, and we are introduce to this couple who loves Ichigo and the idea of working with the company. But then, the shooting happened and they left some drawings there. So months later Sam finds them and.... nothing happens, that was the plot twist, the most impactful scene. Mark died because he went to that meeting thinking it would be great for the company. And later, those people appear showing that they work there. And that's it, one line. We never see them again, and we don't see the game either, Mark's last wish for the company feels left to the air. Things similar to that happened two more times, where I felt the story was missing.

Overall very good book.

This book promise more than it could handle

The one chapter about the rollercoaster was fantastic. The idea of having to decide to euthanize your own child so it doesn't suffer is haunting. Really well done.

The rest of the chapters though, are very lacking, some feel incomplete, the general story never progresses. Really forgetful.

If you are more interested in character development than in action, this book is not for you.

The Hunter is just an action book, Parker wants revenge and he will beat everyone with his bare hands to get it.

The most interesting parts of this book were those from the perspective of everyone but Parker. The other characters had hopes and regrets. Parker was just very bland, and reading everything from his perspective got tired.