God's Eye by
A.J. Scudiere
My rating:
5 of 5 stars
Ok, so, I have all these stuff in my mind and it’s really hard to get them in order right now, but maybe if I write it down it will be easy. Just like those movies where everything is messed up, but everything turns out alright in the end, or maybe not. I’m babbling, sorry, I do that sometimes *always* and things get really crazy, really fast.
Focus! I need to focus!
Ok, I think I got it.
CHAIN REACTION!
We wake up in the morning, drink coffee, go to work and spend our lives following a river that flows endlessly till the day we cease to exist. Every day we make choices, conscious or not that these choices have consequences. I’m not talking about the big decisions like choosing Team Jacob or Team Edward. I’m talking about the apparently small ones like choosing the brand of your shampoo. Something like that can change many lives.
How? Well, lets play a little game I like to call “Things that are so crazy it just may be true”.
You go to the supermarket, pick up a shampoo that smells good. Your money helps the shampoo company to get bigger and profit. With the profit they try to come up with new products. These new products have to be tested and so, many dogs, cats, rabbits and stuff are broth in to run these tests. Many of these little animals will die in pain because of allergic reaction to the chemicals in the shampoo’s formula.
So, if you think about it, countless pets will die by your hand for something that seem so frugal like a shampoo. Ok, sorry, I’m being mean, but I’m not lying. These stuff really happens and worse.
Now that I scared the crap out of you, lets get this review done with. LoL
The Plot - K is a grownup girl that works for her dad in a company that deals with money investments. Yeah, it’s a grownup book. No high school stuff here. So, she lives her dull life until one day her dad brings a guy for her to teach and she feels that things are about to change. If that wasn’t alarming enough, she gets a new neighbor too.
These two men appeared in her life and they are so hot and K find herself stuck between the two with no idea of how to choose.
Little did she know that her decision means more than simply choosing between two hot mans.
The Characters - We have:
K
She is smart, beautiful and completely dormant to everything around her.
A
He is like a 5yo, but in the best sense on the analogy. He feels every single thing around him like is the first time. Really endearing and sweet, but he has something dark and frightening that he hides.
E
He is perfect, at least on the outside. He is charming and beautiful like a diamond, and just as hard and cold.
M
She is super bright and love books and researching. I like her, I like her a lot. These are the main characters and the ones you should really know. They are well developed and have the necessary depth to be real and matter in the story.
The Writing - It’s in third person and, in this case, I think is the best way to tell this particular story. It’s a grownup writing and was a little different from what I’m used to. I don’t know how to explain, it just felt more serious than the writing I’m used to read. It doesn’t explain every detail along the way, so you just have to pay attention to the clues and have a good memory, cose if you can’t remember something it’s not gonna be reminded along the way. So, keep sharp. I particularly like this. I often find irritating the fact that some authors find necessary to keep reminding stuff all the freaking time. This slow the reading too much. Bottom line is, I like this reading. I don’t love it, but I like very much. Especially the fact that, just like the main character, I couldn’t say until the last minute, who was the bad guy and who was the good guy. A book that keeps you guessing all the way to the end has to be respected.
The Audiobook Recording - This is the part where I praise and bitch around at the same time. I’ll start with the good part. This is an amazing recording. I felt like I was listening to a movie. The soundtrack and even the background sounds were wonderful. But I have to admit that I was startle sometimes with the way too real sounds of phone rings and steps that appeared out of nowhere. And in the really scary parts, wow, I almost pee my pants. Really one of the best recordings I ever heard. My favorites were E, A and K’s dad. A was the best.
Now, lets get to the bitchy part of this. I want to let this really clear, I don’t know any of these narrators and don’t have anything against any of them. My opinion is based only in their reading. That being said, Justine Eyre’s reading sucks. Really. She has this really annoying nasal sound that makes me want to tear my ears off. In some parts she read just fine, but in others I had to stop and take a deep breath. I honestly find my self skipping the audiobooks that she reads. It’s not worth the pain.
Considerations - You know when you read a book and there’s the main character that have these two hot guys that are all over her? And she feels attracted to them, and just can’t say who she likes more? But she has to decide between the two? Yeah, this is really normal for a paranormal story these days, but what we don’t see much is a choice that actually means something more than just choosing between two hot guys.
K has some really important decision to make that can cost more than her heart and her panties. This is about seeing things beyond your safe fence, to open your eyes to the things around you and really live your life instead of just going through it. It’s about turning something evil and using it to make a difference and change things for the better. To be more than people think or expect of you. To live up to your expectations and no one else’s. To stick up to what you believe no matter what people tell you. And also, the meaning of love. Real love, with no strings and no boundaries. Love that allowed you to choose yourself instead of putting you in danger. To free you even if that means heartbreak. That unselfish love that we don’t see very often.
This book was a nice surprise and was kindly provided to me in exchange for a honest review by the Griffyn Ink Publishing .
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