Overall rating and opinion of "The Face of Fear" by RJ Torbert
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Re: Overall rating and opinion of "The Face of Fear" by RJ Torbert
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I think this book has a very detailed and intriguing premise. I like that the characters were well developed, and the author upheld the suspense from beginning to end. The grammatical errors were a turn off. I didn't like that. Of course, I'd recommend this book to readers who have the heart for a strong themed crime thriller. Nevertheless, it deserves a 4 out of 4 stars rating.gali wrote: ↑01 Dec 2018, 00:17 This is a discussion topic for the December 2018 Book of the Month, The Face of Fear: A Powers and Johnson Novel by RJ Torbert. What is your overall opinion of the book? What do you like most about it? What do you like least? Will you recommend the book to other people? Why or why not?
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Would I recommend it to others? I would, if you can overlook the editorial issues, and resist the urge to skim through the pages because of the too many details.
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Maybe the author should have spent a little less time with irrelevant dialogues and tedious scene descriptions and invest a little more in character development, which seems the author has never heard of.
I got tired of reading, restaurant menus, and eternal praises to how wonderful the restaurant Z Pita is! Really? The absurd amount of grammatical errors are an afterthought compared to everything else bad in this book!
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I wonder if you actually know what character development means? This book has at best, zero character development for all its characters. We don't get to know anything about any of the characters that is relevant to the plot. Other than futile irrelevant information about what music one of them like. We have no personal stakes for any of the characters involved in solving the crime, we get no background information for any of the characters, their motivations or a simple reason why they are involved in the story at all. Damn, we don't even get a simple physical description of the characters in many cases!Kibetious wrote: ↑31 Dec 2018, 00:29The quality of character development and plot building is good for sure. I am fascinated by this and I hope that the grammatical errors will be corrected.Mackenzie Hargis wrote: ↑30 Dec 2018, 15:52 The characters in "The Face of Fear" by RJ Torbert are well developed and and described by Torbert. However, the novel needs to be thoroughly edited, for there are many grammatical errors. If you can overlook these errors, the plot of the story is worth reading about!
Character development is when the reader understands who the character is, his motivations, his stakes, and mostly WHY he is part of the plot, so you can actually get emotionally involved with the character, feel for them, hate them, love them, and so on. Other than that you have "people doing things."
This book is full of people doing things and talking about things. But very little of an actual story.
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Personally, I love reading detectives and horror stories. From the very first glimpse, I fell in love with the cover of this book and thought that the name was catchy too. Because of that, I had some bigger expectations on it. Unfortunately, I did not enjoy reading it. For me the characters were cliche and the plot was easy to guess.
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LolzRuba Abu Ali wrote: ↑01 Dec 2018, 06:07 I liked the well-built characters in this book. On the downside, I was a bit put off by the grammatical errors. A round of judicious editing is needed. Additionally, at certain points, there were extensive details that I felt were not of major importance to the storyline.
Would I recommend it to others? I would, if you can overlook the editorial issues, and resist the urge to skim through the pages because of the too many details.
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