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Review by Grace-Essien -- The King of May by Matthew Tysz
[Following is a volunteer review of "The King of May" by Matthew Tysz.]
This dark fiction book, The King of May by Matthew Tysz, is a sequel to the first book in its series, The Turn. The book tells the story of conflicts for dominance amongst god-like beings and mortals after the experience of a catastrophic occurrence called ‘The Turn’, in the world.
The book is written from the different points of views of the characters, but the story revolves more around the two protagonists, Scholar and Ashley; and two contending rulers, the king of May and Cattleprod. Scholar and Ashley were two close friends, sidekicks and mercenaries, who were rising in fame as a result of their past accomplishments in the defeat of some gods.
The king of May was a big and ugly looking man with over a thousand pounds of flesh. He however, had beautiful eyes and was a very good dancer. His rulership was very interesting and most things were done in a dance in his kingdom. All his emissaries were required to dance when speaking to him. The story took a titillating turn when Scholar and Ashley visited the king of May. The king held Ashley hostage and tried to threaten Scholar who was the smarter and more skilled of the two, into eliminating Cattleprod. Was he successful in this gimmick?
The King of May is an eventful book that is action and terror based. I found the story really thrilling and interesting. The author used both narrative and descriptive writing approaches in crafting the story. I appreciate that the scenarios are well described in a spicy and engaging manner that paints pictures in the readers’ minds and helps them to get a full grasp of what is being communicated. My best thing about the book is that the characters are lively and that the story is told from different points of views.
Before reading The King of May, I strongly recommend that one reads its prequel, The Turn, because The King of May’s plot is built from there and a lot of references were made to incidents that happened in The Turn. This is what I liked least about the book. For a reader that had not read The Turn, I found the first parts of The King of May slightly confusing and was unable to flow with the story until when I got to the later parts. I feel that the author could have done a better job at providing a connection between The Turn and The King of May in the beginning of the book, so that the readers can relate and connect immediately and easily with the book even without reading its prequel.
Overall, the book is interesting, clear, well-crafted and seems to be professionally edited as I did not find any grammatical error or misspellings. Taking all these into consideration, I give The King of May a rating of 4 out of 4 stars. If you are a lover of dark thrillers, then this book is for you. However, I do not recommend it for children because of the violence and brutality portrayed in the book.
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The King of May
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This dark fiction book, The King of May by Matthew Tysz, is a sequel to the first book in its series, The Turn. The book tells the story of conflicts for dominance amongst god-like beings and mortals after the experience of a catastrophic occurrence called ‘The Turn’, in the world.
The book is written from the different points of views of the characters, but the story revolves more around the two protagonists, Scholar and Ashley; and two contending rulers, the king of May and Cattleprod. Scholar and Ashley were two close friends, sidekicks and mercenaries, who were rising in fame as a result of their past accomplishments in the defeat of some gods.
The king of May was a big and ugly looking man with over a thousand pounds of flesh. He however, had beautiful eyes and was a very good dancer. His rulership was very interesting and most things were done in a dance in his kingdom. All his emissaries were required to dance when speaking to him. The story took a titillating turn when Scholar and Ashley visited the king of May. The king held Ashley hostage and tried to threaten Scholar who was the smarter and more skilled of the two, into eliminating Cattleprod. Was he successful in this gimmick?
The King of May is an eventful book that is action and terror based. I found the story really thrilling and interesting. The author used both narrative and descriptive writing approaches in crafting the story. I appreciate that the scenarios are well described in a spicy and engaging manner that paints pictures in the readers’ minds and helps them to get a full grasp of what is being communicated. My best thing about the book is that the characters are lively and that the story is told from different points of views.
Before reading The King of May, I strongly recommend that one reads its prequel, The Turn, because The King of May’s plot is built from there and a lot of references were made to incidents that happened in The Turn. This is what I liked least about the book. For a reader that had not read The Turn, I found the first parts of The King of May slightly confusing and was unable to flow with the story until when I got to the later parts. I feel that the author could have done a better job at providing a connection between The Turn and The King of May in the beginning of the book, so that the readers can relate and connect immediately and easily with the book even without reading its prequel.
Overall, the book is interesting, clear, well-crafted and seems to be professionally edited as I did not find any grammatical error or misspellings. Taking all these into consideration, I give The King of May a rating of 4 out of 4 stars. If you are a lover of dark thrillers, then this book is for you. However, I do not recommend it for children because of the violence and brutality portrayed in the book.
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The King of May
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