Overall rating and opinion of "Opaque" by Calix Leigh-Reign

Bukola02 · Post by **Bukola02** » 05 Mar 2020, 02:08

I read this book and was impressed with the story and the character development.

Moray_001 · Post by **Moray_001** » 05 Mar 2020, 08:16

Rayasaurus wrote: ↑03 Mar 2020, 15:57
Moray_001 wrote: ↑03 Mar 2020, 02:38
Rayasaurus wrote: ↑01 Feb 2020, 13:00 I really liked this book overall, especially Adam's character development. His relationship with Carly (at least looking at it from Carly's perspective) wasn't my favorite, but it still made sense for the story. I rated it a 3 star book, but I would definitely recommend it to teenagers and young adults.
I’m curious, why did you feel that their relationship wasn’t a good aspect?
I’ve never been fond of the sort of woman saves man from his own darkness through a romantic relationship trope because of the way it seems to never really work out in real life, but it’s just my personal preference. Adam is quite unstable and dangerous at the beginning of the novel, so I feel like it was a bad decision for Carly to get involved with him romantically at that time.

Oh I understand now. Most people would call that a toxic relationship when they feel they can be the saving grace of someone else. In real life, they may get burned more than a few times trying to do that.

AlexisLib · Post by **AlexisLib** » 05 Mar 2020, 16:16

Adam's darkness and actions in the beginning were very hard to read and uncomfortable to me, but I have to say I wanted to find out what was going to happen. I really liked Carly and her maturity and calm demeanor; she really added some balance to the characters and the plot. I actually didn't know it was going to be a "superhero" book, somehow I missed that, so when the other mutants were introduced with their powers it almost felt like a different book to me. I also found the scene of them demonstrating their powers derivative of the X Men and there were too many of them; I could not keep them straight either by how they looked or what their powers were. Too many new characters all introduced at once. Ultimately though these two halves of the book came together for me and made sense in the end. I gave it a 3 out of 4.

xuanmaii · Post by **xuanmaii** » 06 Mar 2020, 10:16

I rated this 3 out of 4 for the amazing plot twists but I wish there were more elaborations on Adam and Carly's mutant group of friends

Pearl Hijabi · Post by **Pearl Hijabi** » 06 Mar 2020, 12:06

I haven't read the book yet but from the reviews and the above comments i the book is based on a great plot and the character development is great. I think the 4 star rating is worthy for the book.

ms_vinkel · Post by **ms_vinkel** » 07 Mar 2020, 13:03

This is on my want-to-read shelf! :) While I'm slightly hesitant on reading this because of the warnings on noticeable writing errors, I'm still interested in reading it because of its praised engaging plot and character development. I asked for a sample already.

Chefjulz · Post by **Chefjulz** » 09 Mar 2020, 14:57

I enjoyed this book. I particularly liked the character development and the author's descriptive style.

tanner87cbs · Post by **tanner87cbs** » 09 Mar 2020, 22:06

diamonnd wrote: ↑01 Feb 2020, 12:08 I absolutely loved reading this book! I really enjoyed Adam's character development and watching his relationship with Carly grow.

This was my overall impression of the book as well. It was exciting to watch Adam and Carly grow closer to each other. As well as Adam mature.

La Loca Designs · Post by **La Loca Designs** » 09 Mar 2020, 23:44

I rate this book 2 out of 4 stars. I like the overall concept, but the writing and characters are confusing, the relationship between Carlie and Adam is disturbing, and it is full of typos. I will not continue with this series.

mhopkins · Post by **mhopkins** » 11 Mar 2020, 09:14

I did not enjoy reading this book. The writing was not very good, there were a lot of mistakes, and most of the relationships were creepy. I am not sure what I liked most about it, maybe Carly? Or maybe that I finally finished it and didn't have to read it anymore.

piplup45 · Post by **piplup45** » 11 Mar 2020, 16:03

I’m reading some of these posts and find myself wondering if we somehow are reading different books.

I haven’t finished yet, but am pushing through. I cannot get past how Leigh-Reign uses adverbs and adjectives like she’s back in the time of Dickens and is getting paid by the word. There are entire paragraphs that don’t even contain any verbs, they’re just full of descriptions of clothing, how every teenage girl in the town except Carly has a boob job, and how Carly has a huge “heart-shaped fanny.”

Add the protagonist having an oedipus complex, kidnapping a girl and taking her to his rape dungeon, and referring to people as animals and you have the entire character development (not really spoilers, you get all this information by the end of chapter 2).

Later, add in how instead of emphasizing a Russian accent like a normal author would, just writing it phonetically, she makes use of the Cyrillic alphabet. She seems to want to ostracize the reader.

It’s the weirdest rip-off of Edward Cullen with a 50 Shades-type fantasy liking to think he has the powers of the Force that I’ve ever come across.

Maybe my opinion will change once I make it through, but I doubt it and the severe need for edits isn’t helping.

godly02 · Post by **godly02** » 12 Mar 2020, 07:44

I am still in the process of reading this book but what I have been able to read has drawn me in. I am just trying to juggle this book and the one I am reading for a review. I can't wait to see how things develop for Adam and Carly. Based on the comments that I have read I will not be disappointed when it comes to their relationship.

Adaezeboltbethel · Post by **Adaezeboltbethel** » 13 Mar 2020, 02:05

The story was good. I wanted to like the book some more but there were some actions and characters I could not just support. Come on now, it was hard to like the protagonist (Adam). Carly was sweet but I can't seem to wrap my head around why she was eager to go to war because her father was kidnapped, yet she did not keep the same energy when she learned that her boy friend got an innocent girl killed. 3/4.

Nicolene75 · Post by **Nicolene75** » 15 Mar 2020, 00:09

I'm relatively new on online bookclub, so I only downloaded the summary pages yesterday ... but oh wow, what an interesting beginning to what sounds to be an amazing book! I've already added it to my "want to read" list but after speeding through the first pages, that's a double thumbs up for me.

Van112 · Post by **Van112** » 15 Mar 2020, 00:42

I am still about to give the book a go. This is not my usual genre however reading through the reviews I was somehow pulled to give this a chance as I am curious about the plot twists. This seems like a great one as I haven't seen any rating lower than 3 and most have rated it 4 out of 4.