gabrieljingco's review against another edition
3.0
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The Slaughter brothers, Ron and Bing, are high school students who aim to change their lives by getting admitted to their dream school. The problem is that with their current grade, it is impossible to change it because they need to pass their SAT exams. On the eve before their examination, they had invited some friends to study. Things took an unexpected turn, and so together they had to fight supernatural creatures and a strange cult to save the world.
J.R.R.R. (Jim) Hardison’s Demon Freaks is one of those hilarious books that you would surely want to pick up if you’re looking for a kind of story that would definitely make you laugh.
I am not going to lie; the cover is another reason why I’ve decided to give this one a shot. The book has an interesting concept, yet the execution of the story is not bad, but it could be better. The story is funny, but I think that it went a little overboard, and I had a hard time distinguishing if it was a young adult or middle grade novel.
I usually like this kind of book, but this one just did not do it for me. First, the names of the characters I think it was intended to be funny, and in doing so, the author lost their creativity in naming their characters. Such a method would have worked if this book were a children’s or middle grade book, but that is not the case; this one is a young adult novel.
A consequence of their names is that they don’t stick; they are totally forgettable. The author even tried incorporating a parody of The Lord of the Rings, but it failed mostly because of the inconsistency of its power throughout the story. The book also takes place over one night, so there is not much character development. The story would have been even better if each chapter wasn’t divided among all four of them. I think that each of them deserves to be given their own point of view.
Overall, I think that this could have been more decent if the story did not leave readers with a lot of unanswered questions and plot holes. I have decided to give this book 3 out of 5 stars because it was not good, but that doesn’t mean it’s bad either. I would still recommend this book to people who are looking for a quick and entertaining read.
The Slaughter brothers, Ron and Bing, are high school students who aim to change their lives by getting admitted to their dream school. The problem is that with their current grade, it is impossible to change it because they need to pass their SAT exams. On the eve before their examination, they had invited some friends to study. Things took an unexpected turn, and so together they had to fight supernatural creatures and a strange cult to save the world.
J.R.R.R. (Jim) Hardison’s Demon Freaks is one of those hilarious books that you would surely want to pick up if you’re looking for a kind of story that would definitely make you laugh.
I am not going to lie; the cover is another reason why I’ve decided to give this one a shot. The book has an interesting concept, yet the execution of the story is not bad, but it could be better. The story is funny, but I think that it went a little overboard, and I had a hard time distinguishing if it was a young adult or middle grade novel.
I usually like this kind of book, but this one just did not do it for me. First, the names of the characters I think it was intended to be funny, and in doing so, the author lost their creativity in naming their characters. Such a method would have worked if this book were a children’s or middle grade book, but that is not the case; this one is a young adult novel.
A consequence of their names is that they don’t stick; they are totally forgettable. The author even tried incorporating a parody of The Lord of the Rings, but it failed mostly because of the inconsistency of its power throughout the story. The book also takes place over one night, so there is not much character development. The story would have been even better if each chapter wasn’t divided among all four of them. I think that each of them deserves to be given their own point of view.
Overall, I think that this could have been more decent if the story did not leave readers with a lot of unanswered questions and plot holes. I have decided to give this book 3 out of 5 stars because it was not good, but that doesn’t mean it’s bad either. I would still recommend this book to people who are looking for a quick and entertaining read.
necklace_53's review against another edition
4.0
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