Review of Death Ray
Posted: 04 Jan 2022, 21:08
[Following is a volunteer review of "Death Ray" by Tom King.]
The main character of Tom King’s Death Ray Mark Bronson is a hardworking engineer that gets blacklisted and is desperate to find a job. He eventually gets a job as a lab technician and comes across a discovery of a lifetime. The book details the struggles Mark has with the knowledge of this discovery and with his relationships.
Death Ray had well-timed transitions and kept me on edge once I started to get into the book. There are no sex scenes, so that’s always a plus for me. And there was no outright cursing. There is some borderline cursing, but that doesn’t bother me and made it more hilarious. Examples would be: “put it where the sun don’t shine” and “ you don’t seem to give a #@&!”. Tom King’s book taught me a lot about the struggles of legal issues and about some technical terms from the legal and engineering world. Some words were Prelim, Arraignment, and ferrous materials.
In the first chapter, the dialogue of Mark explaining his work experiences in a job interview started to get stale, but it did wrap it up with a summary of the rest of his conversation. The book was mostly dialogue with only a couple of descriptions of the surrounding area. Because of these things, it took me a little bit to get into the book.
I would rate Tom King’s Death Ray a 3 out of 4 stars. I would have liked more scene building and details about the surrounding area the characters are in. I didn’t find any grammatical errors and it felt professionally edited.
I would recommend this book to those who like dialogue-heavy books and those who like realistic books. I would recommend an age of 14+, because of big words and moral decisions. Even if you don’t know much about engineering and/or legal terms, you can enjoy this book.
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Death Ray
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The main character of Tom King’s Death Ray Mark Bronson is a hardworking engineer that gets blacklisted and is desperate to find a job. He eventually gets a job as a lab technician and comes across a discovery of a lifetime. The book details the struggles Mark has with the knowledge of this discovery and with his relationships.
Death Ray had well-timed transitions and kept me on edge once I started to get into the book. There are no sex scenes, so that’s always a plus for me. And there was no outright cursing. There is some borderline cursing, but that doesn’t bother me and made it more hilarious. Examples would be: “put it where the sun don’t shine” and “ you don’t seem to give a #@&!”. Tom King’s book taught me a lot about the struggles of legal issues and about some technical terms from the legal and engineering world. Some words were Prelim, Arraignment, and ferrous materials.
In the first chapter, the dialogue of Mark explaining his work experiences in a job interview started to get stale, but it did wrap it up with a summary of the rest of his conversation. The book was mostly dialogue with only a couple of descriptions of the surrounding area. Because of these things, it took me a little bit to get into the book.
I would rate Tom King’s Death Ray a 3 out of 4 stars. I would have liked more scene building and details about the surrounding area the characters are in. I didn’t find any grammatical errors and it felt professionally edited.
I would recommend this book to those who like dialogue-heavy books and those who like realistic books. I would recommend an age of 14+, because of big words and moral decisions. Even if you don’t know much about engineering and/or legal terms, you can enjoy this book.
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Death Ray
View: on Bookshelves | on Amazon