Book #63 of 2019: Misfit Pack | 2019 book: Guild of Tokens: Novice

[thistlechaser]

Guild of Tokens: Novice by Jon Auerbach (Removed from Amazon, so Goodreads link.)
Traditional or self-published: Self-published
Rating: Disliked(Hated-Disliked-Okay-Liked-Loved)



I dropped this one pretty fast. The story opened with some guy in love with a beautiful girl, so he did "romantic" things like sitting in a car outside her house and work so he could learn her patterns, then "just happening" to run into her places, of course not telling her the truth about what he was doing. It was the most disturbing, stalker-ish behavior, and the book played it off as him being "romantic" and putting all this effort into her. It was not at all pleasant to read, so I abandoned the book at 5%.

Partial book credits:
Point reached in this books: 5%
Previous abandoned book total: 547%
New total: 552% (5 books)


Misfit Pack by Stephanie Foxe
Traditional or self-published: Self-published
Rating: Okay (Hated-Disliked-Okay-Liked-Loved)



I rarely say this but: My review of this book shouldn't be given much weight.

I really, really hate urban fantasy. This was urban fantasy, thus it was a poor match for me.

I have no idea why I dislike UF so much. I'm fine with dragons, dinosaurs, kids who can turn into animals to fight an alien invasion, but elves, trolls, werewolves, etc living in neighborhoods is my believability line in the sand? Makes no sense, but that's just how I feel.

The story was fine. The characters were fine. If the setting had been something other than urban fantasy, I probably would have enjoyed it. But as it stands, I read the whole book with a frowny "I don't like this" feeling.

If you're okay with urban fantasy, you'd probably enjoy this book.

Comments

[orangerful.livejournal.com]

Interesting that it was removed from Amazon. Any idea why something like that would happen?

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I've seen the worst things there, of course adult material, clearly copyrighted stuff (like HP fanfic for sale). Even when Amazon knows reviews have been bought, they only delete the reviews, not the whole listing. Maybe the author did it for some reason? But that seems really odd. The whole series has 404'ed pages though.

[wizardelfgirl.livejournal.com]

Lol, I guess you won't be looking forward to that new Pixar film, Onward? XD

(Dang it, I made a verse out of my comment ha ha)

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

*watches the trailer* While it has great people doing the voices, it looks like a HORRIBLE match for me, yeah. :)