Official Review: The Rostical Guild - Sceldrant's Comet
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Official Review: The Rostical Guild - Sceldrant's Comet
[Following is the official OnlineBookClub.org review of "The Rostical Guild - Sceldrant's Comet" by Michael Rogers.]
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This was a very strange book, I like it though, and finished it a lot sooner than I thought I would, considering how large it is. A recommended read for those who play RPG games or like to watch anime, I do both so that’s probably why this novel intrigued me so.
Sceldrant's Comet is like the author says based on video game play. It was more like reading a manga without the pictures though, we start out on Earth with all of our characters living their mundane lives waiting for a phenomenon called Sceldrant's Comet, but when it finally comes and they’re all sitting on their roof watching they are suddenly transported to a fantasy like world where people have powers and magical weapons. As soon as they come to this strange new land they are immediately pegged as outsiders, and with the help of a few misfit characters start their journey to finding their way back home. They discover they have individual powers, and they fit surprisingly well into this foreign land as the story progresses.
I believe that this novel needs more editing time; the author obviously has the story line down and fulfills it marvelously, but this could easily be condensed into a shorter story or into several books, the latter of which would be my suggestion. Right now the length of the story seems tedious, and there are more than one scene where you’re tempted to jump a few pages because you find yourself bored. Also there were more than a few grammatical errors that need to be addressed because it distracts you from the story.
One of the really neat things about this story was that I didn’t see the characters as actual people, I saw anime characters, which may have something to do with the cover of this novel but even their thoughts and actions resemble characters from amines. So before you read this book you may want to watch at least one anime because otherwise you’ll probably be slightly lost on their actions and words.
I was mildly annoyed by this book sometimes because some of the characters actions were unbelievable, or what they said seemed random and not realistic. I think some more time on character development could be used, because often I would be confused by who was who, even though it was laid right in front of you before they even started talking.
The format of this is what sets the book off from others, the format shows who’s speaking like this “Sally: Blah-Blah.” So you always know who is speaking, who’s going to speak and when a random new character comes into the mix because their name will show up as question marks, which I think is a really good idea. Even the descriptions will come from characters chatter, which is one of the reasons the book was very strange.
Overall I rate this book 3 out of 4 stars.
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Sceldrant's Comet is like the author says based on video game play. It was more like reading a manga without the pictures though, we start out on Earth with all of our characters living their mundane lives waiting for a phenomenon called Sceldrant's Comet, but when it finally comes and they’re all sitting on their roof watching they are suddenly transported to a fantasy like world where people have powers and magical weapons. As soon as they come to this strange new land they are immediately pegged as outsiders, and with the help of a few misfit characters start their journey to finding their way back home. They discover they have individual powers, and they fit surprisingly well into this foreign land as the story progresses.
I believe that this novel needs more editing time; the author obviously has the story line down and fulfills it marvelously, but this could easily be condensed into a shorter story or into several books, the latter of which would be my suggestion. Right now the length of the story seems tedious, and there are more than one scene where you’re tempted to jump a few pages because you find yourself bored. Also there were more than a few grammatical errors that need to be addressed because it distracts you from the story.
One of the really neat things about this story was that I didn’t see the characters as actual people, I saw anime characters, which may have something to do with the cover of this novel but even their thoughts and actions resemble characters from amines. So before you read this book you may want to watch at least one anime because otherwise you’ll probably be slightly lost on their actions and words.
I was mildly annoyed by this book sometimes because some of the characters actions were unbelievable, or what they said seemed random and not realistic. I think some more time on character development could be used, because often I would be confused by who was who, even though it was laid right in front of you before they even started talking.
The format of this is what sets the book off from others, the format shows who’s speaking like this “Sally: Blah-Blah.” So you always know who is speaking, who’s going to speak and when a random new character comes into the mix because their name will show up as question marks, which I think is a really good idea. Even the descriptions will come from characters chatter, which is one of the reasons the book was very strange.
Overall I rate this book 3 out of 4 stars.
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