3 out of 4 stars
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The book You, The People by Pablo Digenio is a fiction thriller that shows the eternal punishments of the people who have made terrible decisions and have done sinful things in his/her life.
The book is composed of six different stories about six different individuals, each having his/her own share of sin. The first chapter is about Rebecca Aseptue, a cruel boss who cares more about her business than the lives of other people. Then, there's Alfred Ditezt who had killed many people including children during the war. Another one is Gary Haits, a maniac who pays whores to spend a night with him just to kill them brutally. One is about a man, Mike Notsew, who cares only about himself and how he can get everything he wants – women, alcohol, and money. Another is John Fiendin who doesn’t choose to live in his reality. Then, Teressa Egrette, an alcoholic who has killed a family during a car accident while driving drunk. As what the karma does to individuals who have done sinful deeds, each of them received their gruesome punishments.
Each chapter of the book starts with art, and along with the title of each story, it shows a glimpse and draws intrigue to the story. The first chapter shows a woman, which is Rebecca in the story, opening a box labeled “K.A.R.M.A.” It is a smart choice of making it the first story out of the six. By turning to the first page of the first chapter of the book, it already gives the idea that this is about karma, where an individual will be experiencing the effects of the actions he/she has done in the past. The book conveys a message that the sinful deeds done will be punished in the future. These sinful deeds in the stories portrayed almost all, if not all, of the seven deadly sins which make sense because each story showed his/her eternal punishment.
Although this is a thriller book, the author’s writing style has a good sense of humor. An example of this is when Rebecca sits in the car, he writes “…the vibration in the seat only further exciting her, wink, wink.” And I like how there’s no need for elaborate description and build up for the characters for me to get hooked in the story. Since the book is comprised of six different stories, the length of each story only spans around ten pages. But reading only for the first few pages already intrigues me and gets my imagination wild of what might be the death of the characters and what could have been the sinful things they have done that lead them to those unfortunate endings.
I rate this book 3 out of 4 stars; This a good read that tells the consequences of sinful actions. But some parts of the story that includes monsters or out of natural entities seems absurd to me. There are also plenty of noticeable writing errors mostly on lack of using a comma. Some of the first few that lacks a comma are “…instead she continued on…”, “In the blink of an eye the elevator…”, and “…after all she did represent…”
I recommend this book for those who are into thrilling stories but maybe for those who cringe in stories that include monster-like creatures.
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You, The People
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