Review of The Freedom Building
Posted: 05 Dec 2021, 11:35
[Following is a volunteer review of "The Freedom Building" by Martin Kendall.]
In the book The Freedom Building by Martin Kendall we follow a short part of character John Gowan’s life. At this point in time he is a middle-aged architect, and he owns his own architecture firm in Toxon, a city a short while away from his house, with partner Pete Williams. We as readers are not told what country it is in but we can assume from later information in the book that he is in some part of the UK, as their emergency number is 999, and this is mentioned. We start off the book with him driving to work, and giving us samples of information about himself. As he’s heading along, he decides to stop and get a newspaper, detailing the recent destruction of another semi-nearby company’s building, Zenith. As the day progresses, he becomes more and more interested in the building, and gains hope that he may become the architect that designs the new building. He visits it a few times that day, and on his way home from the last of those visits, he crashes his car. When he wakes up he has a severe case of amnesia, and cannot recall, hear, or view anything about the building he has supposedly designed without dizziness or blackout becoming imminent!
I give this book a rating of 4 out of four stars, as I feel it was very well written. I especially like how he goes into some interesting details of how he feels when he looks at the building or hears anything about it, (aka the dizziness and the fact that the darkness appears in his vision when anything about it is brought up) The ending was truly unexpected for me while I was reading because I only realised what John had planned when the author wrote that he was leaving his house “for the last time” I do wish that we had found out whether or not anything changed, but I suppose that leaves the possibility for a reader to make up their own conclusions about what happened, or even the possibility of a sequel.
There are a few things that I feel like I should mention, however. There is usage of profanity throughout the book, and in a short part it does mention sex, of which the intensity is truly a 1.5 out of 5 because it's not really described, but simply talked about. However, this is simply a trigger warning for readers. That mentioned though, I feel like this does fall under the thriller genre as listed on the Amazon page for the book, as it really keeps readers guessing what John's next decision will be.
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The Freedom Building
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In the book The Freedom Building by Martin Kendall we follow a short part of character John Gowan’s life. At this point in time he is a middle-aged architect, and he owns his own architecture firm in Toxon, a city a short while away from his house, with partner Pete Williams. We as readers are not told what country it is in but we can assume from later information in the book that he is in some part of the UK, as their emergency number is 999, and this is mentioned. We start off the book with him driving to work, and giving us samples of information about himself. As he’s heading along, he decides to stop and get a newspaper, detailing the recent destruction of another semi-nearby company’s building, Zenith. As the day progresses, he becomes more and more interested in the building, and gains hope that he may become the architect that designs the new building. He visits it a few times that day, and on his way home from the last of those visits, he crashes his car. When he wakes up he has a severe case of amnesia, and cannot recall, hear, or view anything about the building he has supposedly designed without dizziness or blackout becoming imminent!
I give this book a rating of 4 out of four stars, as I feel it was very well written. I especially like how he goes into some interesting details of how he feels when he looks at the building or hears anything about it, (aka the dizziness and the fact that the darkness appears in his vision when anything about it is brought up) The ending was truly unexpected for me while I was reading because I only realised what John had planned when the author wrote that he was leaving his house “for the last time” I do wish that we had found out whether or not anything changed, but I suppose that leaves the possibility for a reader to make up their own conclusions about what happened, or even the possibility of a sequel.
There are a few things that I feel like I should mention, however. There is usage of profanity throughout the book, and in a short part it does mention sex, of which the intensity is truly a 1.5 out of 5 because it's not really described, but simply talked about. However, this is simply a trigger warning for readers. That mentioned though, I feel like this does fall under the thriller genre as listed on the Amazon page for the book, as it really keeps readers guessing what John's next decision will be.
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The Freedom Building
View: on Bookshelves | on Amazon