Gift of the Master The Master of Books Series Book 1 eBook Robert Fluegel
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"Tommy Travers opens up a book to get lost in its pages. His favorite places are in the stories he reads, and his best friends are the characters inside. He doesn't need anybody else. With books Tommy can do anything, even forget about the father that abandoned him years ago--until, on his fifteenth birthday, he's actually pulled inside.
Suddenly the very stories of wizards, warriors, battles and beasts he once escaped into are now what Tommy tries to escape from. He can hardly stay alive, much less be the hero he always pictured himself as. By each story's end he experiences more than he ever could reading a book. But the danger only grows when Tommy accidentally brings a powerful curse back into the real world with him.
In this first novel in the Master of Books Series, experience every bookworm's wildest dream as reality and fantasy collide."
Gift of the Master The Master of Books Series Book 1 eBook Robert Fluegel
When posting reviews, I typically try to identify which audience might enjoy the book, but The Gift of the Master is difficult for me to pin down. Perhaps it might appeal to the younger portion of the YA audience.The story follows the adventures of Tommy Travers, a socially-inept, introverted fifteen-year-old who, having lived his life escaping into books, falls into one, literally. He soon discovers life inside a story, where the dangers are real and the realities an author avoids (tedium, unhealed wounds, exhaustion, hunger, etc.) negatively affect the experience. Even more harrowing, when he emerges from the book, he finds himself in the middle of a hidden-from-the-world battle between a society of similarly Gifted individuals and a powerful villain seeking dominion over all.
What I liked: The underlying premise of the story is appealing, with enough twists to make it original. I also found the pacing good and the voice strangely appropriate. For me, the voice sounded younger than Tommy's fifteen years, maybe closer to twelve. As such, all of what I would describe as troublesome, technical weaknesses (grammatical mistakes, poor sentence/paragraph construction, flat characters, too-much/too-little description, excessive narration, etc.) seemed strangely authentic.
What I thought could be improved: Only one of the four major plot lines plays out; the other three, which make up 70-80% of the book, just sort of fade away. I also had POV problems. The majority of the story is told through Tommy's first-person perspective; however, significant portions are also told through various third-person perspectives. I found the mixing of styles very distracting. In addition, Fleugel seems to have a strange aversion to commas, which frequently had me re-reading sentences I stumbled over initially. (Admittedly, many readers may actually prefer this minimal use of commas.) Finally, I think the book suffers from weak editing.
In retrospect, The Gift of the Master seems to me like an interesting piece of furniture that has been carefully designed and constructed, but still needs a rough sanding, a fine sanding, and a coat of finish before I would consider it complete.
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Gift of the Master The Master of Books Series Book 1 eBook Robert Fluegel Reviews
This is a time-honored plot--boy likes to read books, boy falls into world of books, adventure ensues. While this may be a simplistic base, there's actually a good deal of complexity to the way Mr. Fluegel brings things about in this first book of what will obviously be a series.
Thomas Travers is the main character, and as a typical scrawny adolescent, when he ends up in a Native American tribe having to fight off an enemy tribe, he's understandably unprepared. A lot of the book deals with the growth of this character from scared little boy into a young man ready to deal with a real world crises for which he is partially responsible. I thought the book had a good, satisfying ending while still leading the reader towards the next in the series. If it's one thing I hate, it's not having an ending as a way to pull the readers to the next book; it frustrates and infuriates me. I'm thankful that Mr. Fluegal didn't use such gimmicks, but gives the reader a fully satisfying story.
There were a couple moments of awkwardness in the plot, but overall this book kept my attention. I've read books that felt like a chore to get through. Not this case with this one; it was highly enjoyable. I think this book would appeal to young adult as well as adult fantasy readers.
One last thing I noted was a very unusual decision from the writer regarding point of view. Everything in Thomas's viewpoint is written in first person, while any other point of view is written in third. While this meant the bulk of the book is very immediate to the reader since it is about Thomas's adventures, it became a little strange towards the end when we visit several viewpoints. I'm not sure if this was a strength to the book or not. Overall, it was well done, so this is mainly a footnote. The prose was clean, and while I could see it being tightened just a little more, for the most part the writing was very good.
Therefore, on a scale of one to five, I give "Quickened" four stars. I'm pretty stingy with the five stars, so this is actually quite good.
Gift of the Master is a version of the Never-Ending Story. An avid reader falls into books and gets lost in the stories. Mr. Fluegel dives deep into the nitty-gritty of the minutia of each tale to show the difference between fantasy and reality. This interesting concept spends a little too much time on the other realities that don't move the overall plot forward at all. While meandering in these other worlds and connecting to those characters the overall story disappears. As a reader I found myself expecting to get back to the main plot page after page. The plot of the actual book is a good one. It has legs and can stand on its own without leaving the reader to linger in the unresolved stories of the books within the book. The author should also have a proofreader take a peek at this again. There are several problems with the quotation marks being in the wrong place and spacing issues.
It will be interesting if the next book tightens up and focuses on keeping one story arc. There is a good deal of room for Tommy to develop as a character and the burgeoning relationship between Amelia and Tommy is intriguing. The unanswered questions of his familial ties to this mysterious group has the potential to be a fascinating read.
When posting reviews, I typically try to identify which audience might enjoy the book, but The Gift of the Master is difficult for me to pin down. Perhaps it might appeal to the younger portion of the YA audience.
The story follows the adventures of Tommy Travers, a socially-inept, introverted fifteen-year-old who, having lived his life escaping into books, falls into one, literally. He soon discovers life inside a story, where the dangers are real and the realities an author avoids (tedium, unhealed wounds, exhaustion, hunger, etc.) negatively affect the experience. Even more harrowing, when he emerges from the book, he finds himself in the middle of a hidden-from-the-world battle between a society of similarly Gifted individuals and a powerful villain seeking dominion over all.
What I liked The underlying premise of the story is appealing, with enough twists to make it original. I also found the pacing good and the voice strangely appropriate. For me, the voice sounded younger than Tommy's fifteen years, maybe closer to twelve. As such, all of what I would describe as troublesome, technical weaknesses (grammatical mistakes, poor sentence/paragraph construction, flat characters, too-much/too-little description, excessive narration, etc.) seemed strangely authentic.
What I thought could be improved Only one of the four major plot lines plays out; the other three, which make up 70-80% of the book, just sort of fade away. I also had POV problems. The majority of the story is told through Tommy's first-person perspective; however, significant portions are also told through various third-person perspectives. I found the mixing of styles very distracting. In addition, Fleugel seems to have a strange aversion to commas, which frequently had me re-reading sentences I stumbled over initially. (Admittedly, many readers may actually prefer this minimal use of commas.) Finally, I think the book suffers from weak editing.
In retrospect, The Gift of the Master seems to me like an interesting piece of furniture that has been carefully designed and constructed, but still needs a rough sanding, a fine sanding, and a coat of finish before I would consider it complete.
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