Review of The Decision
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Review of The Decision
[Following is a volunteer review of "The Decision" by Michael D. Komeshak.]
The Decision written by Michael D. Komeshak is a book that revolves mainly around a mid 20’s man named Jason. Jason gets called upon to a mysterious meeting and brings his girlfriend, Sarah, along. In this meeting Jason will learn more about himself and his morals than he can handle, and he learns a ton about the other participants in this event as well. If he thought his first decision was hard… he’ll be in for a long ride.
This book sucked me in from the very beginning and kept me wondering what’s going to happen until the very end. The book gives lots of backstory on the main characters and I appreciate that because it gives a lot more insight into why they’re making the choices they are. The main character, Jason, is very level-headed and not egotistical which makes him likeable, along with his girlfriend. I love how it tells you what day or time is in when there’s time skips so you know exactly how long it’s been and helps your understanding of time in the book. It it very expertly written, especially with the dialogue involving the politicians and from everyone’s background and you can tell it’s been taken into consideration by the author of a persons ethnicity, heritage, and image of what they would talk like and how they would act. I like that the book’s in third person because I feel like it wouldn’t have been executed as well as it has been if it was presented in first person. The book has a lot of true facts about science and religion which I think is really cool, I love that there’s some LGBT representation as well. The author is very descriptive of the characters feelings and thoughts which makes them a lot more relatable and gets you more invested in what’s going to happen as well. I also love how it educates about a multitude of cultures and the diverse beliefs and viewpoints. This book definitely looks like it’s professionally edited.
There’s not much bad I can say about this book because I genuinely couldn’t put it down. I only have three notes that I would like to make known; the author is very good at describing the characters emotions, but I have no idea what their surroundings look like or the characters themselves. He also uses the words ‘said’ and ‘asked’ a lot, and I would prefer some diversity. Lastly, this book does have some homophobic and racist content, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but it’s definitely not good and I just want to let readers be prepared for some pretty harsh ethnic slurs.
I would give this book 4 out of 4 stars. It is written so well and there’s so much that contributes to giving it a perfect score but it was a joy to read. The one things that some people might have let drop the score is that this is an open-ended book, and some people don’t like that type of ending, but I’m not going to take that into consideration because of how expertly written it is.
I would recommend this book to people who aren’t under the age of 14, there’s some pretty heavy slurs and content that younger people wouldn’t be able to handle but I feel like anyone who likes reading would be able to enjoy this.
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The Decision
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The Decision written by Michael D. Komeshak is a book that revolves mainly around a mid 20’s man named Jason. Jason gets called upon to a mysterious meeting and brings his girlfriend, Sarah, along. In this meeting Jason will learn more about himself and his morals than he can handle, and he learns a ton about the other participants in this event as well. If he thought his first decision was hard… he’ll be in for a long ride.
This book sucked me in from the very beginning and kept me wondering what’s going to happen until the very end. The book gives lots of backstory on the main characters and I appreciate that because it gives a lot more insight into why they’re making the choices they are. The main character, Jason, is very level-headed and not egotistical which makes him likeable, along with his girlfriend. I love how it tells you what day or time is in when there’s time skips so you know exactly how long it’s been and helps your understanding of time in the book. It it very expertly written, especially with the dialogue involving the politicians and from everyone’s background and you can tell it’s been taken into consideration by the author of a persons ethnicity, heritage, and image of what they would talk like and how they would act. I like that the book’s in third person because I feel like it wouldn’t have been executed as well as it has been if it was presented in first person. The book has a lot of true facts about science and religion which I think is really cool, I love that there’s some LGBT representation as well. The author is very descriptive of the characters feelings and thoughts which makes them a lot more relatable and gets you more invested in what’s going to happen as well. I also love how it educates about a multitude of cultures and the diverse beliefs and viewpoints. This book definitely looks like it’s professionally edited.
There’s not much bad I can say about this book because I genuinely couldn’t put it down. I only have three notes that I would like to make known; the author is very good at describing the characters emotions, but I have no idea what their surroundings look like or the characters themselves. He also uses the words ‘said’ and ‘asked’ a lot, and I would prefer some diversity. Lastly, this book does have some homophobic and racist content, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but it’s definitely not good and I just want to let readers be prepared for some pretty harsh ethnic slurs.
I would give this book 4 out of 4 stars. It is written so well and there’s so much that contributes to giving it a perfect score but it was a joy to read. The one things that some people might have let drop the score is that this is an open-ended book, and some people don’t like that type of ending, but I’m not going to take that into consideration because of how expertly written it is.
I would recommend this book to people who aren’t under the age of 14, there’s some pretty heavy slurs and content that younger people wouldn’t be able to handle but I feel like anyone who likes reading would be able to enjoy this.
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The Decision
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