Review of Past Imperfect
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Review of Past Imperfect
[Following is a volunteer review of "Past Imperfect" by G D Harrison.]
Past Imperfect by G D Harrison is all about the actions of people driven by emotions. The book focuses on several characters and how their lives were affected by their actions in the past. The protagonist of the story, Colin, is a middle-aged man working as a social worker. The development of the story starts when he is assigned to aid this old man, who thinks that he is still in his teen years. Colin was supposed to ease the hardships of Sam's guardians—the name of the old patient. But as he was uncovering the past of the old man in order to determine how old he really thought he was, he discovered something that would change how he perceived his life.
The book realistically portrays how a human being thinks. It shows how our emotions and what we think are really contradictory. Some of their thinking and responses to situations in the book may seem absurd and unreasonable to some readers, but they portray how we humans are capable of doing unexpected things because we have our own free will. This book helps us understand the point of view of the people who we think are absurd or bad. Some of the readers may encounter a person who has the same personality as some of the characters in the book. It will help them understand those people better.
The book narrates the thoughts and the pace of the story from a third-person point of view and focuses alternately on the characters. The book consists of fifteen chapters that narrate all the events chronologically. The flashbacks and direction of the story are easy to follow. The book was also short, so the details provided were concise, and no other unimportant details were provided.
The book was great—the gist, the characters, the plot, as well as the writing style. The author uses great and strange things as metaphors, which makes the story interesting. The descriptions of the characters are also described vividly.
I did not dislike anything about the book. However, there was one scene in the book that I thought wasn't constructed well. Some readers might disagree with me, and that is totally okay. It's the part where Colin finds out the truth about something I can't disclose as it will spoil the story. He easily concluded the truth without a realistic way of explaining how people found out the truth. The thing about here is that the readers already knew the truth but the characters in the story did not, so I expected that Colin would not know the whole truth by simply comparing the handwritten in a player. Anyway, unexpected things always happen, and a simple hint might really change anything up. That's why I never consider this a negative aspect of the book since it is based on my opinion alone.
I never found any errors or profanities, but there are some sensitive contents, including the traumas of the characters, that readers should be aware of. I recommend this to people who want to read something unusual and out of the box. With all the things that I stated about this book, I rate it 5 out of 5 stars.
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Past Imperfect
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Past Imperfect by G D Harrison is all about the actions of people driven by emotions. The book focuses on several characters and how their lives were affected by their actions in the past. The protagonist of the story, Colin, is a middle-aged man working as a social worker. The development of the story starts when he is assigned to aid this old man, who thinks that he is still in his teen years. Colin was supposed to ease the hardships of Sam's guardians—the name of the old patient. But as he was uncovering the past of the old man in order to determine how old he really thought he was, he discovered something that would change how he perceived his life.
The book realistically portrays how a human being thinks. It shows how our emotions and what we think are really contradictory. Some of their thinking and responses to situations in the book may seem absurd and unreasonable to some readers, but they portray how we humans are capable of doing unexpected things because we have our own free will. This book helps us understand the point of view of the people who we think are absurd or bad. Some of the readers may encounter a person who has the same personality as some of the characters in the book. It will help them understand those people better.
The book narrates the thoughts and the pace of the story from a third-person point of view and focuses alternately on the characters. The book consists of fifteen chapters that narrate all the events chronologically. The flashbacks and direction of the story are easy to follow. The book was also short, so the details provided were concise, and no other unimportant details were provided.
The book was great—the gist, the characters, the plot, as well as the writing style. The author uses great and strange things as metaphors, which makes the story interesting. The descriptions of the characters are also described vividly.
I did not dislike anything about the book. However, there was one scene in the book that I thought wasn't constructed well. Some readers might disagree with me, and that is totally okay. It's the part where Colin finds out the truth about something I can't disclose as it will spoil the story. He easily concluded the truth without a realistic way of explaining how people found out the truth. The thing about here is that the readers already knew the truth but the characters in the story did not, so I expected that Colin would not know the whole truth by simply comparing the handwritten in a player. Anyway, unexpected things always happen, and a simple hint might really change anything up. That's why I never consider this a negative aspect of the book since it is based on my opinion alone.
I never found any errors or profanities, but there are some sensitive contents, including the traumas of the characters, that readers should be aware of. I recommend this to people who want to read something unusual and out of the box. With all the things that I stated about this book, I rate it 5 out of 5 stars.
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Past Imperfect
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