Official Review: Rex Randall and the Jericho Secret
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Official Review: Rex Randall and the Jericho Secret
[Following is the official OnlineBookClub.org review of "Rex Randall and the Jericho Secret" by Vince Carter.]
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Rex Randall and the Jericho Secret, by Vince Carter, is a novel about a thriller writer who writes books that are not-so-loosely based on real adventures from his life. This first installment of the Rex Randall series is one in which Rex Randall and his girls are asked to help with a secret government mission of protection. This, in turn, becomes the basis of Rex’s new book, in which his main character, Jason, and his girls, are asked to help with a very similar mission.
I found this novel to have a slightly old-fashioned crime-solvers vibe, almost akin to Charlie’s Angels. However, in some instances, this actually made certain scenes slightly cheesy. Rex and his girls had access to anything and everything they wanted and needed because they had a wide variety of experiences, and a vast amount of money to make up for what their experiences did not provide them. While this is very much how the world works, there were some cases in which things seemed a little too convenient or too easily accessible to them.
This book was, I’m sad to say, poorly edited. There were many occurrences of missing, repeated, or incorrect words. There were also minor errors within scenes, such as one scene in which there was a group of masked men, and one character somehow watches their facial reactions. There were also some minor technical errors, mainly concerning comma usage, and an over-use of “quotation marks” around things that really didn't need them, for example, the use of ‘a “cover” story’. The only other thing from this book that seemed a bit off to me was that Rex Randall’s stories were sometimes exact copies of what he had actually experienced, to the point that I’m sure Carter copied and pasted those scenes and changed the names (especially considering that a couple of these scenes were exactly the same, including typos).
Errors aside, I really wanted more from this book, and by more from this book, I mean more of it. Throughout most of the story, especially in the beginning, I felt as though I was being told the story rather than being shown it. I think that many of the scenes could have been played out, rather than summarized, and that would have the ability to draw the reader in deeper and more quickly. The language used throughout the book was wonderful, and I wish I could have seen how Vince Carter used that magnificent language to describe each scene in greater detail.
I rate this book 3 out of 4 stars. I look forward to reading more from this author, with the hope that he takes advantage of his beautiful language skills and expands on future scenes to describe them as they happen rather than summarize them, and that he edits properly so as not to distract from his writing.
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I found this novel to have a slightly old-fashioned crime-solvers vibe, almost akin to Charlie’s Angels. However, in some instances, this actually made certain scenes slightly cheesy. Rex and his girls had access to anything and everything they wanted and needed because they had a wide variety of experiences, and a vast amount of money to make up for what their experiences did not provide them. While this is very much how the world works, there were some cases in which things seemed a little too convenient or too easily accessible to them.
This book was, I’m sad to say, poorly edited. There were many occurrences of missing, repeated, or incorrect words. There were also minor errors within scenes, such as one scene in which there was a group of masked men, and one character somehow watches their facial reactions. There were also some minor technical errors, mainly concerning comma usage, and an over-use of “quotation marks” around things that really didn't need them, for example, the use of ‘a “cover” story’. The only other thing from this book that seemed a bit off to me was that Rex Randall’s stories were sometimes exact copies of what he had actually experienced, to the point that I’m sure Carter copied and pasted those scenes and changed the names (especially considering that a couple of these scenes were exactly the same, including typos).
Errors aside, I really wanted more from this book, and by more from this book, I mean more of it. Throughout most of the story, especially in the beginning, I felt as though I was being told the story rather than being shown it. I think that many of the scenes could have been played out, rather than summarized, and that would have the ability to draw the reader in deeper and more quickly. The language used throughout the book was wonderful, and I wish I could have seen how Vince Carter used that magnificent language to describe each scene in greater detail.
I rate this book 3 out of 4 stars. I look forward to reading more from this author, with the hope that he takes advantage of his beautiful language skills and expands on future scenes to describe them as they happen rather than summarize them, and that he edits properly so as not to distract from his writing.
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