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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The novel's tone also feels like something out of an old-school cheesy romance story. Nothing wrong with that, if that's what you're into, but as people have mentioned, it's completely out of place here. Some of the sentences are legitimately cringe-inducing, and that's not a term I like throwing around. Overall, I'm not planning on continuing to read.
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One of the weirdest things I've noticed is that Sky doesn't even sound American, to be honest. He sounds like the stereotype of a British gentleman via a regency romance.allbooked+ wrote: ↑14 Jun 2019, 16:20 I just finished reading this book and I am having a hard time placing it in time. On one hand, the drone and computer technology place this book in current times. The language spoken by the men in the book places is in the 1950's (repeatedly calling Cynthia darling, and the boy shouting Golly!). There were other issues but those will go into my review!
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I absolutely agree with you! The book is neither here nor there, i'm not sure of which audience it's best suited for.Brendan Donaghy wrote: ↑02 Jun 2019, 03:37 I read the sample and felt no desire to read any more. For me, this felt like a book aimed at teenagers. I understand from reading other comments that the book contains content more suitable for adults in places. That being the case, it sounds as if the author hasn't really worked out the target audience for this book.
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Agreed. I think the author should have chosen one genre as the main part of the book and used the other sparingly to a more lasting effect than trying to do both at the same time. It might have improved many parts of the book if she did.Everydayadventure15 wrote: ↑16 Jun 2019, 15:42 Overall, I felt like this was a quick read because the story wasn’t super complex. The cyber war portion of the book was more interesting than the romance part. The relationship between Cynthia and Sky didn’t come across as believable to me because it was a bit shallow. They fell in love way too fast and his immediate offer to marry her after a one night stand just seemed really fake and unrealistic. The computer nerds, however, were engaging characters and I enjoyed watching them conduct their cyber war. I don’t know anyone I’d recommend this book to because there were some awkward scenes, but the book itself is trying to be a romance and a thriller and I don’t think it came across strongly in either genre.
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I did like the parts that dealt with cyberwar however, I wished the author had put more of that into the book. In the end, I rated it 3 out of 4 stars.
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Basically. I lost all ability to suspend disbelief. I kept trying to convince myself that I would come back to the book, but in the end, had to admit I was not going to.
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I finished the book but I do have to agree with you. Once you start to notice the flawed research in the book, you can't stop. This was why a lot of the technological aspects of the book irked me a lot.esp1975 wrote: ↑18 Jun 2019, 16:39 Sadly, I think I have to give this book 0 stars, in that I just could not bring myself to finish reading it. Cynthia was not believable as a character. And because I found her so unbelievable, I noticed every single other point where the author did not do her research, and found myself nitpicking every little thing. For example, if you are planning on attending graduate school in the fall, you know in January or February if you have been accepted to programs, and throughout the US, students attending graduate school are required to let programs know if they have accepted their offer or not by April 15. This is standard. So you will never have a student on a summer internship not knowing where they are going to school in the fall. This is something incredibly easy to research (heck, simply google "graduate school decision deadline" to get the April 15 date), and the fact that the author did not research it is just mind boggling to me.
Basically. I lost all ability to suspend disbelief. I kept trying to convince myself that I would come back to the book, but in the end, had to admit I was not going to.