Overall rating and opinion of "Cynthia and Dan: Cyber War" by Dorothy May Mercer
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Re: Overall rating and opinion of "Cynthia and Dan: Cyber War" by Dorothy May Mercer
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I completely agree with you about the Sky. Sky was introduced and written with an air of mystery about him,and I don't think Mercer did a good job breaking down this mystery, choosing instead to break down the mystery in favor of making him a suitable love interest. But because this change happened so suddenly, I felt like he was just putting up an act and he has completely different intentionsStephanie Elizabeth wrote: ↑01 Jun 2019, 06:12 From what I have read of this book, I do not really like it or feel a connection to the characters. I think bringing down terrorists on it's own would be a a great storyline, but I do not like this relationship between Dan and Sky. There is something very off-putting about Sky. He quite condescending towards Cynthia. At this point, I would give the book 2 stars.
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I agree, sky was very mysterious but I did feel like she made the right choice at the end.Gaby+LysMom2KB wrote: ↑04 Jun 2019, 19:25 I've read some of the book, Cynthia and Dan: Cyber Wars, and thought it was getting a little interesting. Sky did seem like a mysterious character, and not sure what his intentions actually were. I don't think I could give a decent rating, not having read enough. It's not my favorite genre.
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Even though I am still not finished with the book I do agree with you, even this early on I feel like the author manipulates story a certain way but telling and not showing. I am very confused about some of her choices.BuzzingQuill wrote: ↑03 Jun 2019, 12:21 Overall I would have to rate this book a 2 out of 4, I hesitate to call it bad as I did find myself engaged at several points in the book, I thought the revelation of Dan was rather predictable because the author wanted to ensure the reader felt like Cynthia made the right choice. Also, I feel like the story had quite a lot going on, that often times narratives didn't feel carefully woven together, instead they were just kind of spluttered together. I also did note quite a number of grammatical errors of the book, which did not help the book seem polished in my opinion
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There was a lot about this book that I didn’t like. I did not connect with any of the characters, in the slightest. I found myself greatly disliking most of the characters. For instance, I really didn’t like Cynthia, Dan, or Sky. These characters had very little (if any) character development, felt forced and appeared cliche. Other characters such as “the geeks’ or her brother left me feeling apathetic. In addition to the characters, I felt the book did not have a concrete direction; instead, the book seemed torn between subplots. As a result, the book felt a little anticlimactic and left me, as a reader, feeling unsatisfied, and almost incredulous. The flow of the book was very choppy. The extra subheadings increased the disruption of the flow as opposed to assisting with the organization. At times, I felt I was reading segments of a story, instead of whole, complete ideas. Finally, I find the title of the book peculiar. "Cythnia and Dan: Cyberwar" is a misleading title for me. Ultimately, I gave this book a rating of 2 out of 4. It wasn’t horrible, but it’s definitely not something I would recommend.