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Review: Glimpse

Glimpse Glimpse by Steven Whibley
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

3.5 Stars

The only reason I read this was because of a last ditch effort to complete one more point off of my Popsugar 2015 reading challenge list. As you may have noticed, it is now 2016 so one might say that my efforts were unsuccessful. Under normal circumstances I should have been able to finish it on time, but I ended up going on a vacation for the last ten days of the year and I was somewhat preoccupied with that.

Now that my backstory is properly established, on with the review!

Glimpse... I was about to tell you what it's about, but I went into this book knowing exactly nothing and it worked well for me so I'm just not going to say anything specific about the plot. What I will say is that it reads like middle grade and it gave me Percy Jackson feels. The narrator, Dean, has similar sass levels as Percy... actually multiple characters have high sass levels. Sassy book.

...not entirely sure if I was having another hallucination or a stroke, but praying desperately for the stroke.


The writing style in general is reminiscent of Rick Riordan, but Glimpse had less editing errors than Percy Jackson. Though at the same time it's also a lot shorter.

I went into this book pretty set on the idea that I was not going to continue on with this series, but this ended up being better than I expected. By the end of the book the story is pretty set up and it's actually quite interesting and it makes me want to read more.

One thing that was odd was that this is surprisingly dark. People die and get killed in this book. There were some spoopy descriptions of spoilery things that were kind of out of genre.

I could go out and kill the neighbor's dog, skin it, and wear it's head as a hat, and he'd calmly call it a phase.


That was one of the more mild examples of spoop. Along with some of these descriptions there would also often be a drop of true art:

...this was the kind of scream that freezes blood, send shivers up your spine, makes you pee your pants...


I truly feel the fear by reading that description. Dean just has this personality were he would say these weirdly amazing things like:

...my sanity got a real kick in the biscuits.


and:

...I'd stick to her side like a fat kid on a cookie...


not to mention:

...the lure of a free giveaway is kind of hard to ignore.

#relatable

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