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Review by Affiong Effiong Okon -- Opaque
[Following is a volunteer review of "Opaque" by Calix Leigh-Reign.]
BOOK REVIEW BY AFFIONG EFFIONG OKON
TITLE: Opaque
AUTHOR: Calix Leigh-Reign
The Scion saga series is really a wonderful story of denial to reality and it traces family histories like never before.
The major characters are Carly Wit and Adam Casplain.
Carly Wit one of the dangerous line from the descendants of the Wit family line is bent to have revenge in subsequent series.
Adam Casplain makes the book livelier by adding romance in any possible way and from all the trauma of finding who he really is and finally the death of his father and Dauma, he reconsiders his stand. towards humanity and I hope he never call humans animals again.
Dauma is a force which will definitely live on forever in the book. You have heard some people never dies but lives on, it is ever present in this book.
Joann makes humanity possible. She portrays everything good.
At the beginning of the novel, I was pissed off with the author allowing the character of Adam to describe human as animal because I felt it was derogatory, but towards the end his character unfolds and I understand better.
One of the lines on Page 132 says ‘Be calm and let us think how we can retrieve your father’. That line just makes me laugh because it sounds more like the father is an object which is missing than a human.
I found some lines that felt more like typographical error:
Page 173- ‘hey Vikki, His greeting is absent habitual hostility’. I feel ‘of’ is supposed to be in the sentence.
Page 199- ‘he believes she deserves all the special he can give her…’. I feel ‘care’ is supposed to be in the sentence.
The book tries to tell us that most time the world revolves around lies and that is why page 220 says @the fear of the unknown isn’t the worst kind of fear in the world. It’s the kind that causes people to lie and live lies destroying other lives, families and relationships’.
The actions of the story is summarised on page 247 where ‘Carly gains understanding about why her mother withheld so much information because most of it was on a need-to-know basis. Every human wants to know everything, rationalizing they require it to make an informed decision but they simply desire the level of knowledge that causes suffering and depression as it had done with King Solomon because they aren’t prepared to receive nor process it. King Solomon was the wisest in all the land but was depressed by all he knew’.
I hope the writer deems it fit for me to review the remaining book and brings up Split Adam and Specular version. I will also love to be among the script directors if ever this book goes to the cinema because it is meant for it.
Opaque is everything of drama and science tale. It is a nice book made for the screen. I would give it a 4 rating for combining humour, romance, horror, sorrow and laughter in one piece.
4 out of 4
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Opaque
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BOOK REVIEW BY AFFIONG EFFIONG OKON
TITLE: Opaque
AUTHOR: Calix Leigh-Reign
The Scion saga series is really a wonderful story of denial to reality and it traces family histories like never before.
The major characters are Carly Wit and Adam Casplain.
Carly Wit one of the dangerous line from the descendants of the Wit family line is bent to have revenge in subsequent series.
Adam Casplain makes the book livelier by adding romance in any possible way and from all the trauma of finding who he really is and finally the death of his father and Dauma, he reconsiders his stand. towards humanity and I hope he never call humans animals again.
Dauma is a force which will definitely live on forever in the book. You have heard some people never dies but lives on, it is ever present in this book.
Joann makes humanity possible. She portrays everything good.
At the beginning of the novel, I was pissed off with the author allowing the character of Adam to describe human as animal because I felt it was derogatory, but towards the end his character unfolds and I understand better.
One of the lines on Page 132 says ‘Be calm and let us think how we can retrieve your father’. That line just makes me laugh because it sounds more like the father is an object which is missing than a human.
I found some lines that felt more like typographical error:
Page 173- ‘hey Vikki, His greeting is absent habitual hostility’. I feel ‘of’ is supposed to be in the sentence.
Page 199- ‘he believes she deserves all the special he can give her…’. I feel ‘care’ is supposed to be in the sentence.
The book tries to tell us that most time the world revolves around lies and that is why page 220 says @the fear of the unknown isn’t the worst kind of fear in the world. It’s the kind that causes people to lie and live lies destroying other lives, families and relationships’.
The actions of the story is summarised on page 247 where ‘Carly gains understanding about why her mother withheld so much information because most of it was on a need-to-know basis. Every human wants to know everything, rationalizing they require it to make an informed decision but they simply desire the level of knowledge that causes suffering and depression as it had done with King Solomon because they aren’t prepared to receive nor process it. King Solomon was the wisest in all the land but was depressed by all he knew’.
I hope the writer deems it fit for me to review the remaining book and brings up Split Adam and Specular version. I will also love to be among the script directors if ever this book goes to the cinema because it is meant for it.
Opaque is everything of drama and science tale. It is a nice book made for the screen. I would give it a 4 rating for combining humour, romance, horror, sorrow and laughter in one piece.
4 out of 4
******
Opaque
View: on Bookshelves | on Amazon | on iTunes | on Smashwords
Latest Review: Opaque by Calix Leigh-Reign
