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A Native’s Tongue

Another older review, not one of my most positive reviews, but you can't like them all.

Posted 21st January 2015

A Native’s Tongue by Michael D. Dennis
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

This book was given to me by the author through Ethereal Book Reviews (-Guest Reviewer Program-)

I give this book 2.5 stars.

I have to say this was a world wind of crazy. Have you ever watched the show Deadly Devotion on Investigative Discovery? This story would find a nice home there and it would most definitely have it’s own two hour special.

This is a book that takes look into the mind of a stalker, a possessive cougar and a lonely man who is drowning in guilt from a lost family member that was out of his control. This is not a light hearted read, and it isn’t something you should start if you don’t like darker tones and straight forward writing.

There isn’t much writing about the surrounds as there is about the going ons in others minds. With each new character introduced, we get a little look into their inner demons and twisted minds. I will say this really isn’t a book for a teen, no hate here, just saying with the type of book that this is, and the way it’s writing in such a real life setting, would make it had for a teenager and maybe most young adults, to connect with it.

No one is perfect, that message is so clear you can feel your own heart cracking to the point where you find yourself reliving your own not to happy and innocent memories. This story lets us enter a hard very real reality that, no the grass isn’t greener no matter what side of it you where unluckily enough to be born on. I have many mixed feelings and confuse thoughts about this book. There isn’t much closure, but then again, there never is in the real world.

This is a strong look into a hard world that sadly does exist. As someone who has traveled to many different countries, and seeing first hand some of their planted horror’s, made me connect with this book on the knowing that, yes this could happen, because the world is hard and everyone has a devil inside of them. All it takes is that one straw, and, crack.

The one shocker for me, and the reason you could say I’m giving this book 2.5 stars, is the ending. I read it three times to make sure I didn’t make it up myself. What the flaming hell? I’m sitting here confuse as F*, wondering what the hell just happened and why? I can’t even form proper thoughts on this and I’m a little angry about this WTF ending.

My second reason for giving this book a below average rating, is that the transitions are a very sloppy. I mean, once I got use to it, it was okay, (but I shouldn't have had to got use to it) but in the beginning I had to read ahead just to see who’s head I was in. I get it, the Author was probably trying to go for a TV drama like scene change, but that’s doesn’t work in books. In all, I do believe this book would make a fantastic TV movie. (I have a thing for TV movies.)

I don’t think I would read this book again, maybe in a year, but, I have to figure out what the ending was all about first. (My head is spinning)

If you’re going to red this book, have an open mind. Don’t shut it out because you don’t like the writing style or the minor structural problems. I got sucked into this book, it wasn’t happy, and I knew it wouldn’t be, but sometimes you need to give your heart a kick in the feels to understand that not everything is perfect, because perfection isn’t real, and frankly it’s boring.

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Don’t stop being awesome.

Emily .


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