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A review by tee_m
Seven Psychics by J.C. Diem
2.0
This was one of those books that the summary ruined.
Like most readers, when I read the summary of a book, it is a teaser. Sometimes, the summary is a short preview of the first few chapters. It is never the whole darn book. This book was apparently the exception. The summary of the book is the whole book minus two sex scenes that’s arguable rape.
The reader finds out about the Shifter Squad in the last chapter. And it’s so so stupid. The whole time the plot treats the details about their heightened abilities like it’s some suspense, except... the summary and title of the book gave EVERYTHING away!
So what was left? Just me wading through a ton of filler waiting for the story to start without realizing the summary was it.
The MC was too perfect. The perfect teen that didn’t talk back, crossed all her Ts and doted all her I(s). She was the best sniper the military base had to offer at the ripe age of 17. Soldiers gathered to watch her shoot and compliment her. She read books in her spear time and was so perfect she stopped having a babysitter at the age of 13, even though her military father was gone a lot, and her mother was dead.
It was contradictory though, that the MC claimed she had no friends, being the invisible loner everyone in school ignored and yet, few chapters in, she claimed she was also used to guys chatting her up. Then again she is used to being ignored by everyone, but then is not usually ignore by guys. I point this out to outline my point about not only the inconsistencies in the character, but the absolute lack of character development. Not just for the MC but basically all the characters in the book.
The display of the characters was generic, at best. There was nothing to give life or personality to any of the fringe characters, not even Kala and that was a damn shame. No real peak into their lives, not even the life of the main character. No descriptions of their daily lives, besides work out. We are told a lot, but besides gun and an unhealthy love of cereal and coffee, I know nothing of the MC as an individual made alive by a book. No real motives, no complex thoughts or characterization, just shoot and join military. Yet, the book was so centered on the FMC that it almost eclipsed the plot (which was actually not about the FMC)! How that worked out befuddles me!
I also can’t tell you a single detail of the world build beyond Denver. No idea what city in Denver, no neighborhoods. Everything was limited to military base and no-name hotels. The antagonist were props without complications or ambitions or motives or distinct personalities (no shock considering the main character). The plot boiled down to ‘evil, shoot to kill.’ There were more details of the FMC’s clothes than there were of the people or places. Readers are not even given a motive for Reece’s treatment of the fMC, the summary was actually what gave the motive
Like most readers, when I read the summary of a book, it is a teaser. Sometimes, the summary is a short preview of the first few chapters. It is never the whole darn book. This book was apparently the exception. The summary of the book is the whole book minus two sex scenes that’s arguable rape.
The reader finds out about the Shifter Squad in the last chapter. And it’s so so stupid. The whole time the plot treats the details about their heightened abilities like it’s some suspense, except... the summary and title of the book gave EVERYTHING away!
So what was left? Just me wading through a ton of filler waiting for the story to start without realizing the summary was it.
The MC was too perfect. The perfect teen that didn’t talk back, crossed all her Ts and doted all her I(s). She was the best sniper the military base had to offer at the ripe age of 17. Soldiers gathered to watch her shoot and compliment her. She read books in her spear time and was so perfect she stopped having a babysitter at the age of 13, even though her military father was gone a lot, and her mother was dead.
It was contradictory though, that the MC claimed she had no friends, being the invisible loner everyone in school ignored and yet, few chapters in, she claimed she was also used to guys chatting her up. Then again she is used to being ignored by everyone, but then is not usually ignore by guys. I point this out to outline my point about not only the inconsistencies in the character, but the absolute lack of character development. Not just for the MC but basically all the characters in the book.
The display of the characters was generic, at best. There was nothing to give life or personality to any of the fringe characters, not even Kala and that was a damn shame. No real peak into their lives, not even the life of the main character. No descriptions of their daily lives, besides work out. We are told a lot, but besides gun and an unhealthy love of cereal and coffee, I know nothing of the MC as an individual made alive by a book. No real motives, no complex thoughts or characterization, just shoot and join military. Yet, the book was so centered on the FMC that it almost eclipsed the plot (which was actually not about the FMC)! How that worked out befuddles me!
I also can’t tell you a single detail of the world build beyond Denver. No idea what city in Denver, no neighborhoods. Everything was limited to military base and no-name hotels. The antagonist were props without complications or ambitions or motives or distinct personalities (no shock considering the main character). The plot boiled down to ‘evil, shoot to kill.’ There were more details of the FMC’s clothes than there were of the people or places. Readers are not even given a motive for Reece’s treatment of the fMC, the summary was actually what gave the motive