Other Endings Cody Lakin 9781612967882 Books
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For most of his life, Lester Halley has existed in a haze of isolation and depression. Haunted by a violent and sorrowful past, and finally having reached the precipice of his ability to cope with living, he leaves the States and finds himself in an historic English small town called Margaret’s Mourning, a place as isolated and lonely as he is. Margaret’s Mourning, however, is far more than merely a strange place that Lester has stumbled upon by accident. As he soon learns, it is a place full of ghosts, both literal and metaphorical, and the more he learns about it—as he makes new, meaningful friendships; as he comes to feel that he belongs there—the more he begins to understand that the things he sees and feels along its cobblestone streets are somehow tied to his own past, and with a love he lost long ago.
Other Endings Cody Lakin 9781612967882 Books
Loved the story! It made me think about depression and how it affects our lives.I do agree with the comment about editing though. There were several places in the story that didn't make sense as a born in England American. If you go to a bakery you're not going to get gravy, not even here in New England. In England biscuits are cookies so you would never put gravy on them. In one part the characters go for an early breakfast at the bakery and eat chili! For breakfast? I don't understand why the thing appeared as a poodle.
Finally there are some sentences that run an entire paragraph. The writing needs to be tightened up because it takes away from what could be a great story.
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Other Endings Cody Lakin 9781612967882 Books Reviews
Superfluous use of descriptors make for difficult reading. Could be that with some heavy editing, enough will be left over for a decent short.
BRILLIANT!!!!!! When I found out that this "brand-new author" was only 21 years old, I was blown away. This story has depth and meaning that will keep you interested until the end. This young author has huge potential and reminds me of Stephen King. The story is cute, imaginative, impressive, and shockingly suspenseful. The characters seem to be real people that you will find both complex and heartwarming. The setting feels real because humanity is imperfect. Cody Lakin writes well beyond his actual years lived on earth, and I suspect he will be a living entity in most reader's homes in years to come. If you have time for a quick and easy read that will leave you feeling better then when you started, then this is a must read!
Absolutely wonderfully crafted by this amazing young author! Loved the story, the characters and the thread.
Interesting read that kept my attention. I would recommend to those that like to think outside the box so to speak.
I loved this story! I enjoyed all the characters and thought it had a great story line. I do agree with other reviews that there are a LOT of run-on sentences which is why I give it 4 stars. But I would definitely read the author's future work if he chooses to write more!
If this book had an editor, the editor should be fired. If it didn’t have an editor, one should be hired quickly. At best, it is an exceptionally rough first draft. There are many substantial issues with this book that obliterate any shred of the story the author is attempting to tell. A good editor would have caught them all.
There is no cohesive story. It is not unusual for an author to give a nod to a favorite author by way of similar writing styles or story lines but this book is a mashup of several such stories. I started logging the works I could identify as influences Insomnia, Rose Madder, The Shining, The Dark Half, and IT (all Stephen King), Ocean at the End of the Lane (Neil Gaiman), Shirley Jackson’s Haunting of Hill House as well as Richard Matheson’s Hell House, the gothic horror of Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca and possibly a touch of Joe Hill’s Heart-Shaped Box to name a few. As influences go, this is an excellent list. The reason that these work as individual books is because they focus on one specific element whereas Other Endings tries to mash them all together. It leaves the reader wondering exactly what is the main story? Is it a haunted house? Town? An ancient evil? Ghosts? What? There are too many competing elements with a distinct lack of cohesion between them. They are tossed into the story one by one until there is nothing but mud. Pick one and stick with it.
Adjective abuse is rampant. There are run on sentences full of adjectives that make no sense. Less is more. One of the more egregious offenders is the opening sentence in Chapter 1 of Part 3. “The storm battered Margaret’s Mourning, along with the whole of Goldengrove Coast, for two days more, not even subsiding for an hour’s break from the flood of rain, thus rendering all travel which constituted more than a dash from one street block to the next all but impossible, and then, once the two days had passed, the blue of the sky once more became visible between lingering gray clouds, and the air was quiet and calm.” WHEW!!! How about this instead The storm battered Margaret’s Mourning for two days. When it finally subsided, people began to emerge from their homes like refugees from an underground shelter after a bombing.
Speaking of word bloat, what is with all the smirking? There is so much smirking going on in this book I’ve developed PTSD (Post Traumatic Smirking Disorder). I literally flinch now when I see the word used anywhere. I counted the number of times smirk or any of its variations was used and came up with 31. Worse, it was used 31 times incorrectly. There is no instance in which anyone would smirk at a bathroom. They would give it a nod of approval or satisfaction but smirk at it? I think not. To quote William Goldman “You keep using that word. I don’t think it means what you think it means.” Learn what it means.
Every character is poorly defined. They evoke no emotional response at all from the reader and are less than one dimensional, if that is possible. They are paper doll caricatures. The relationships lack heat, friction, tension, or any semblance of humanness in them. Character development is a key element in a story. It explains why they act the way they do. These characters never develop. They never become anyone the reader can care about.
Stephen King wrote “Write what you know.” It is clear from this story that the author did not follow that bit of advice when he chose to locate the bulk of his book in the United Kingdom. Everything from the setting to the speech patterns do not ring true for a UK setting. The speech patterns are all California/West Coast and sound more like teenagers than twenty somethings. The setting is some vague English village in the middle of nowhere but none of the ambiance says United Kingdom except as written by a person who has never been there. Nobody in the UK would order biscuits and gravy. You’d be putting gravy on cookies. Since moving the story to the UK didn’t advance the storyline, it would have been better for it to have remained in the US, located in an area that the author is intimately familiar with. That would have at the very least lent an air of authenticity to the story and the characters.
I shall stop now with this review lest it become as wordy as the novel I’m reviewing. But one last thing to note before I go Adrienne is a woman’s name. Adrian or Adrien are the correct spellings for a man’s name.
Loved the story! It made me think about depression and how it affects our lives.
I do agree with the comment about editing though. There were several places in the story that didn't make sense as a born in England American. If you go to a bakery you're not going to get gravy, not even here in New England. In England biscuits are cookies so you would never put gravy on them. In one part the characters go for an early breakfast at the bakery and eat chili! For breakfast? I don't understand why the thing appeared as a poodle.
Finally there are some sentences that run an entire paragraph. The writing needs to be tightened up because it takes away from what could be a great story.
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