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Cargando... Sedona: The Lost Vortexpor Mikel J. Wilson
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A love adventure with a truly original sci-fi/metaphysical twist. Sedona is a Northern Arizona town visited as much for its legends of mysterious energy vortexes, UFO sightings and other paranormal activity as it is for the majestic red rock formations that stand sentry over its landscape. Gregor Buckingham, however, is coming because Sedona has been calling to him. A young metaphysician scarred from a childhood fire, Gregor will soon discover a lost ancient power, his first requited love and a mortal enemy he must fight to save them both. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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When I saw the title of this book I was immediately interested in reading Sedona because I’ve been to Sedona and it’s beautiful. The other reason was the idea behind the story about paranormal activity and vortexes. So I was looking forward to reading this story. Sadly, I was very disappointed and could not get more than 100 pages through the book. I actually put it aside for a few days thinking that I just needed a breather from the author’s style of writing. I tried to read it again, but just couldn’t bear it. I usually type out my review notes as I read the book, so my reasons for not finishing the book are written below.
The one thing I liked about this book is that in describing Sedona, and my having been there, the author did a good job so that I could picture the places described very easily.
This book could have been cut by at least 100 pages. There’s too much unnecessary description that slows the pace of the book down and way too much preaching by the reverend August and his son, Mitchell. The sentences are long to the point of almost being run-ons if it weren’t for the commas. It tired me out reading so much filler that didn’t need to be there and I grew bored wanting to skim read the book to hurry past the overly descriptive scenes.
The first chapter, nineteen pages worth, was slow and boring. We are introduced to the characters in an unusual way. We are given very brief snippets of each character at a point in their life that doesn’t really make sense. Then we jump to the next character, same thing happens. Only at the end of the chapter are we shown that these people know each other.
The author switches povs at the drop of a hat. A conversation or scene with one or two characters will last anywhere from a couple paragraphs to a page or two, before abruptly jumping to another scene or character and then another and so on. The hop-scotching of the viewpoints breaks up the rhythm of the story and it’s difficult to get immersed in a scene. The only time the scenes last pages, are when the author has either the reverend August or his son Mitchell, preach on endlessly. They made the book tedious to read.
I always critique on formatting and it’s not good in this book. One character can appear in the same paragraph with another character following immediately after. The added problem is that the second character is in a completely different scene. So you have two different characters in two different scenes in the same paragraph. For example a scene at a campsite starts a paragraph but is immediately followed with a scene with the reverend August ending the same paragraph. This happened too many times to count throughout the book and made reading this story very confusing. Add on top of this the hop-scotching viewpoints I mentioned above, and the povs are an absolute mess.
The erratic pov changes and the formatting flaws are so obvious and sloppy they make Sedona a very confusing and unpleasant read, so much so that I couldn’t finish the book. These two flaws completely overshadow the plot, which is sad because the idea behind the plot is good. However, I read enough to know that I can say in all honesty I can’t give this book higher than 2 stars with the major flaws I found.
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