Synopsis:

The company says Otherworld is amazing—like nothing you’ve ever seen before. They say it’s addictive—that you’ll want to stay forever. They promise Otherworld will make all your dreams come true.

And it’s about to change humanity forever.
Welcome to the Otherworld. No one could have seen it coming.

Review:

THIS WAS ABSOLUTE GARBAGE!

DNF 50%

Never in my entire life have I dnf’d a book. EVER. Usually I put it down and pick it up at a later date and such that shit up. This pathetic excuse for a book was the worst think I have ever read in my entire life and I can tolerate some pretty miserable books but this to me was literally a book that was purely published because of the author’s name – which is beyond disappointing.

Not only is this book written in first person but you don’t even find out what the main characters name is until like page 10. It’s Simon by the way and Simon sucked major ass. Anyone first person is fine to read and write in but you still have to remember that details around that person ARE IMPORTANT to CREATE a SCENE. Literally the first 20 pages you have no idea what the fuck is going on nor what the characters look like – the first 20 page is a lot ‘I did this” “I do that” “I have no idea what the fuck is going on” And this is coming from me who has a creative and wild imagination and can imagine anything and as an adult I can see pictures in cloud like you wouldn’t believe – it should be an Olympic sport. (Except well what the shit was happening in this book. Or pathetic excuse for a book. )

The plot is kind of there? Kinda – like turning the light off and stumbling around in your bedroom in pitch black. Your arms are out and eventually you might run into something. Arm were out and the plot was hiding under the bed, peeking it’s damn cheeky head out. Simon needs to rescue this girl (I can’t even remember her name that’s how bad it is) and needs to go into a VR world to do it. Not the most original idea but again a basis for a somewhat plot.

Simon. Simon. Simon. I have never wanted to stab a character so much in my entire life. Literally he makes me want to go and have a cup of tea with Fey (ACOTAR) and put up with her whinge crap rather than breath the same air as him. Near the start of the book he goes up to these girls that are calling whats-her-face-that-he-loves a slut and tells them they should learn what feminism is and threatens to leak nudes of them if they don’t. Ummm what the fuck is this shit? Blackmail? Was it meant to make Simon look like a hero? Or a douche bag? Cause right now he looks like a douche bag that has no idea what feminism is nor how to be a snarky teenager. Honestly it feels like Segal wanted to write this tough good guy but had no idea what kinda examples to write to make him look tough. His not tough his literally an unflushed turd.

Besides the shaky story and the craptacular characters let’s get down to a writing or should I say how to attempt to write. This was a classic example of how not to write:

–          Go to the dictionary and find some big words

–          Add smaller words around those big words (a, the, then, this, them)

–          Get it published

DO NOT DO THIS FYI. Actually sit down and think about what you are putting on paper and pour you thoughts, soul, love and joy into it. Not a fucking dictionary rewrite.

Oh we should chat about the world building…. Yeah there wasn’t any. Because that would require the author to use DESCRIPTIONS and well that didn’t happen.

The sentences were clunky and didn’t flow at all and half the time they didn’t make any scene or were completely not needed nor necessary. Like at one point he is talking to this dude and then talks about how is straight but this guy had perfect nipples… oh are these magic nipples that will save mankind? No! (Though that would make a funny book) It literally had nothing to do with the plot, characters or anything. Random lines like this are usually cut by editor’s right? It was a page filler. Nothing more than a waste of ink and trees.

Another example of the writing was that there was no clear definition between present day or flashbacks. All you really need is “And then Simon remembered …” but nothing. Switching between present day and past needs to have some context to it and be defining not flow together like a shit sandwich.

Yeah look I’m kinda not going to apologise for my foul language in this blog but I honestly cannot help it. In all my years in reading I have never not finished a book and I swear that this book stole my hope for other books. I know dramatic but it was that bad. I will never finish this book nor will I ever read the remainder of the series. I honestly don’t even know where this went wrong. These pages and ink that somewhat formed a book is a prime example that not everyone can write nor should be allowed to write… You would have more fun reading a physics thesis then this dribble.

Rating:  .5

Publisher: Rock The Boat

ISBN: 9781786073716