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I really dig the cover art.
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Looks really interesting and I'll take a longer look at it on the weekend. Might use part of the birthday money some co-workers will give me next month for this. Thanks for bringing this to my attention.

Looks interesting.
Good luck to your friend.

wont be buying it though. I only buy books if I can get physical copy under 2 eur in thrift stores .... yeah I know I'm cheap don't judge me.
It's that or getting books in library for me.

Ohh it seems interesting! it's available for free with kindle unlimited (at least in Italy), I'll give it a try!

Thanks for telling us!

I just read the synopsis of the book and, well, color me intrigued. I've not bought it yet, but I'm definitely leaning toward it. Good luck to your friend, mate!

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I seems really interesting. I hope your friend has success with it.

Looks interesting enough.
Is this a stand-alone story or does your friend plan to make it a series? (edit: I see its a series :))
Did he write short stories first or did he jump right in the deep end?
I've always thought of writing something...yes I said something, but I lack the attention span I fear. :P

Good luck to your friend and congrats on his first book.

I have a friend that wrote a fantasy kids book a few years ago too.

Here it is.

Oh, that's so cool! Happy writing to your friend and good luck with his book! jumps around excitedly

This looks pretty good, I hope it goes well for him!

(For the record, the cover art is AWESOME).

Not only the synopsis looks interesting at first, but also the writing feels good (you can "Look inside" to read a few pages). Though English is not my mother tongue and I don't usually read books in this language, so I can't really compare. It's easily understandable and I like the sentence rhythm. For a first book, it looks like a success in every way, to me at least.

On Amazon US, the purchase is a no-no for the poor Frenchboy I am : 12.99$ for the book and a disgusting 12.30$ more for shipping and import fees. But luckily, Amazon FR had a couple of copies free of charge.
While I may buy the book in a distant future, I told a friend about it, who is devouring SF books at the moment. And she bought it and got it today ! She's pleasantly surprised with the drawings. Not sure when she'll start the reading as she's in the middle of something else.

So let your friend know that his book reached the Old Continent and will be read there.

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Interesting sounding story and very cool cover art. I'm short on disposable income but i'll see if I can request my local library to purchase a copy. Best wishes for the success of your friend's book!

I looked at the Amazon page. The first red flag was the glowing reviews, which I'd guess are from people close to the writer. When people gush like this over a book by a new writer, I always guess that the book is going to be crappy. The synopsis also had "It’s like Mad Max and Dune, with a touch of The Matrix", and my thought was "probably none of these", or rather that these are such disparate examples that this doesn't give any idea of what the book is like and is just hype. "Less than a year early, his twin brother Pathos went missing" also didn't inspire confidence.

Thanks to MrRenard's comment I took a look inside and read several of the available pages. It's obvious that the writer made some effort to build a world, and, I would guess, construct a plot (it's hard to judge it from reading just a little). However, the writing felt infodumpish. That is, a lot of the background was described, and characters actions, feelings and thoughts were designed to expose the world, making these characters feel less like real people and more like exposition machines.

It's entirely possible that later on, once the world is established, this is less of an issue (though there's some doubt in my mind that this drops off completely). Also, obviously writers do need to provide information about the world, and I don't think this is the worst exposition possible. However, it still felt raw. I find the connection to the characters important for my enjoyment, and when they're pausing to contemplate views just to have them explained, that doesn't do it for me.

That is not to say that it's a bad book, or that it won't find an audience. It does seem interesting enough, and I've seen books which I felt were worse written and still had an audience. For example I felt that the first Harry Potter was rather amateurishly written and found the second book quite boring and quit it mid-way. (I'm not saying that Harry Potter's writing was worse than this. I honestly don't remember. it's just an example of a book that had huge success and I felt wasn't grade A material.)

I have to say that the interest is enough to carry this off to some extent. It's not a perfect read but it did make me curious about the world. If I had to read this book, I think I could have continued it. However, that's not enough of a draw for me to actually buy it.

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