It is obvious that Ching also put a great deal of care into the creation of the characters. While the author does put a great deal of time and effort into this, the story does actually move along at a decent pace. Often times with series, the first book is basically just glorified world-building. While there are definitely plot lines that are left open, the story does a great job pushing forward. The Soulkeepers has one of the most well-developed plots I've seen in a long time Ching does an incredible job crafting the different story elements so that they fit and flow together. I found myself gobbling up pages, desperate to know more about this new, exciting and terrifying world that Jacob is thrust into. There is so much packed into this story it is incredibly easy to get swept up into it. You experience all of his confusion and frustration first hand and you simply must know what happens next.
You quickly become wrapped up in this imaginative story and are transported into Jacob's world. Ching is one of those rare stories that seizes your attention from the start and never lets it go. But I really don't know why I'm expecting so much from a YA book. Oh, the reason for the second star: thanks for touching on racism, but no thanks for the token minority female. This book does it with the two main female characters. As if it wasn't frustrating enough to read books featuring weak and dependent women, this book and many others like it goes one step further and turns women into idiots, usually by punishing them for being strong in some way or not even giving them this opportunity at all. I am seriously sick of picking up books that sound interesting and then end up focusing on religion. I give this a star because up until the very end, all the arguments and the storyline was ok for the YA audience this was written for. I'm sure you can guess what happens at the end. He starts with a sort of frustrated and cavalier attitude when it comes to believing in a God that didn't do anything for him in the very first chapters of the book (and this is where I start guessing as to what this book might actually be.). Book about a teenage boy trying to deal with the possible death of his last remaining parent. I think I'm going to stop reading free books, most of them are terrible at best.Īnyway. I really don't know why booksellers can't make it more obvious, and I'm surprised this one slipped past me with all the checking I did about the genres and such but by the time I realized, it was kind of a trainwreck in progress and I couldn't stop.
Ack, read another free book that ended up having way too strong religious overtones for my taste.
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