Sunday, December 1, 2013
Nothing Last Forever: The best thing about my book
The best thing about my book so far is the amount of character development that the author includes. To go into detail the main character Joe Leland is the archetypal war hero that is called into action one last time. But the way he is described is much deeper and how his emotions are depicted in the random event he gets thrown into when terrorist take over a building. As far as I have read the character is tragic as a divorced, father, and an ex cop, that is trying to rekindle his relationship with his daughter who he is visiting for Christmas. He is also depicted as the rough and tough grizzled veteran that is at the end of his road, and he just wants to unwind and spend time with his family but is all shattered when the terrorist raid the building. Then on the opposite end of the spectrum we have the villains. The terrorist leader is Anton Gruber and he is a German radical terrorist who is described as dark and villainess, but they also add a sympathetic level when you here that the company he is taking over just made a shady business deal that could put a whole unspecified Asian country in hot water. They also talk about how the characters dark and does kill people and you do lose any form of remorse for this guy when he is ruthlessly killing people left and right just to prove a point and they don't give him any other reason except that they made a shady business deal, so they also make him sound dumb from Joes point of view when really in the grand scheme of things he is smart enough to know how to take over a building without the police knowing until a body is thrown out of a window onto a police car. To get off that point the character development is the one thing that stands out the most because without the steps the author takes to make Joe a likeable character that you make him more easy to care for when he has to try and rescue his daughter and the rest of the hostages, and you know how that he might not make it out alive and you root for him the hole the way through. They also talk about how the author makes you dislike the terrorist so much that when they go down you cheer and when they get someone you feel bad, and it gives you the get them feeling.
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