| Title | : | Through the Psyche of Ambrosia: Part II (Worlds Beyond Scripture, #2) |
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| ISBN | : | 1988476038 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9781988476032 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Kindle Edition |
| Number of Pages | : | - |
| Publication | : | First published February 24, 2016 |
Time is running out.
The sands fast slip through the hourglass. Can Regina solve the mystery of the voices haunting him? Or will Ambrosia fall victim to the night of thinnest veil, propelled further down the spiral that ends in a complete breakdown of his reality? To provoke the spirit world means to suffer a mind of madness, still the runes foretell a choice to be made...
Though not prevalent throughout this series, it does contain some content of an adult nature. Recommended for mature audiences.
Through the Psyche of Ambrosia: Part II (Worlds Beyond Scripture, #2) Reviews
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Disclaimer.
I had requested and received audible version of this book for free from the author, in exchange for an unbiased review.
What I liked about the book -
I started reading this book immediately after finishing part I. The unique story telling style continues in this book too. The plot gets a lot broader and complicated in this one and you have to pay close attention to follow what's really going on. It is a rewarding experience at the end, but you do have to work for it and invest time and brain power.
What I disliked about the book -
If you are looking for a lite read where you can just seat back and enjoy, you should skip this one.
Narration -
Narration by John Joseph Rogers was well done. -
DNF at 14%
Oh god.
I'm sorry, I really am, but I couldn't stomach reading any more of this.
I've barely read anything of this second book, and I've already encountered FOUR women who Ambrosia is pathetically desperate to fuck, as seems to be his perogative with every attractive woman. Here's a quote regarding each of them, just for fun:
"The woman I’d seen earlier that day on television, lady in red. It did well to suit her Alice eyes, her ruby smile accented by porcelain skin. I couldn’t help but look towards her rapture, even in my disgust to her actions. Then as being driven away by police, rather inexplicably I thought, did she return a gaze, and winked in my direction."
"Could see my children in her gray-green eyes, by the Goddess but she was sublime."
"She unzipped and removed her jacket, revealing her slender shoulders. Faen, but they the lines of her were just so, perfect. Such seemingly soft specimens too, curving in towards the slightness of her exposed neckline, falling to the disclosure of congruent clavicles and down to the shelter of seamless breasts."
"After the initial embarrassment, we’d be more able to move on and ‘discuss’ matters of the heart a little more freely (of clothes)."
I am utterly and genuinely baffled. So much of the first book was occupied with this exact same tedium, but I was willing to forgive and hope for the best in this one. But alas.. this one somehow manages to be worse.
Keep in mind, the events of the first book and the beginning of this one take place over the course of MAYBE two days. Maybe.
Any sense of Ambrosia becoming a likeable and even just decently interesting character is torn to shreds by his obsessiveness with almost every woman he meets, to the point where this man thinks himself in love with two women who just so happen to be twin sisters, and constantly flips between the two.
That's not a love triangle (more of a decahedron, considering all the other women), that's fetishism.
I wanted to like this, but alas.. there's only so much I'm willing to subject myself to in my finite lifespan. -
I was lost in book 1,I decided not to torture my brain anymore. John Joseph Rogers narration seemed fine throughout.I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.'
