I QUIT The Boy on the Bridge by M.R. Carey
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 เม.ย. 2021
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Don't listen to Mom and Dad. Be a quitter!
The last chapter was while worth it. I reread that charter a few times. It gave me so much pleasure how everything came full circle.
Others in the comments have said the same. I wish I could have made it through. It's so hard when things aren't connecting to push on to the end.
Life is way too short to waste on a book you’re not enjoying! Loved your thoughts I wasn’t really interested in this one, I loved the girl with all the gifts so much I was afraid another would spoil it! Great review!
Glad to hear I'm not alone 🙂. Thanks for watching!
The end of The Boy on the Bridge is the most important part of the book. If you didn't read the last 20 pages, then you don't understand the ultimate result of the cordyceps infection and the ultimate tie in of the two books....
Man, breaks my heart. Wish I could have stuck with it.
@@JasonFuhrman honestly I think you could get away with just cheating to the last 100-50 pages and going through those - I just finished reading it myself and it was an absolute SLOG for the first 2/3rds bc it was all buildup for the ending, which is REALLY good (good enough to make me want to reread it immediately, which makes it one of 2 books I've ever done that for) and it ties so perfectly into tThe girl with all the gifts as a prequel, AND as a follow up to the open ending of The girl with all the gifts that adds to that ending instead of ruining it or prolonging it 👀
Maybe I'll try that. Thanks!
It's totally ok to do whatever you want with your books. I highly suspect tho that if I would've quit every book I didn't enjoy by the 30%, their numbers would be up in the 10s of thousands. I think that the real mastery would be to know your tastes so well that you'd never buy or begin a book you'd eventually quit, in the first place. Top of the morrow to you!
It's difficult to know even when you are aware of your tastes. For me a lot of it is the execution, which you can never know until you read the author. The strangest thing about this one was I really enjoyed the first book. This one felt tacked on, which I'm sure was publisher pressure to keep the cash rolling in.
I think The Girl with all the Gifts was always going to be a very, very hard act to follow - a lot of its impact was in the apocalyptic setting and the idea of the second-generation hungries, and that can only be new once. I agree with you that The Boy on the Bridge had too many main characters and as a result it was difficult for the reader to get to know them and for the writer to give them the depth they deserved (except for Sixsmith, who formed slowly into the best soldier there while everybody else was leaping about shouting, lovely bit of misdirection). But I can't agree with you about the relationship between Rima and Stephen - what I saw was her meeting him where he was rather than where he "should" be in terms of personal relationships, which is the purest way to care for somebody as far as I can see. There were a lot of plotlines that were foregone conclusions because of the prequel timeline, but the author still managed to work increasing amounts of suspense and unease into the narrative as it all fell apart. I stayed up all night reading it because I was too scared to go to bed till it got light, and you can't really ask for more than that from this genre! Cheers and take care.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I thought this book was wonderful. Liked it better than TGWATG to be honest. Yes, most of the characters were one-dimensional (Colonel, McQueen, Fournier) or none-dimensional (all the scientists who died). I'm not usually one for in-novel action but this one kept me on the edge of my seat. I got stuck reading it way past my bedtime twice because I said to myself "just one more chapter". I haven't written my review yet, so not quite sure WHY I liked it so much. But I did like it.
Oh, one thing that I noticed is... the 1.0 humans on the Rosie were so... dead? Like they were not really human. They were tearing themselves apart the whole time. The same goes for Beacon. It is almost a bit too tongue in cheek on a juxtaposition to the feral kids.
This one did have more action. My issue is it's hard for me to be drawn in my action if I'm not attached to the characters.
I am half way finished with the book. The issue I have right now with the book and well since the beginning was everyone keeping important information to themselves. So much could have been avoided without just dragging the reader along and still keep the action.
That makes sense, so in the context of the real world, people would share the information for the greater good but instead, they are hiding it.
@@JasonFuhrman In a perfect world yes. Sadly there will still be a few sets of outliners. (I have erased several replies beyond this point.) Only because looking at current events have shown that we have so many outliners that will cause different outcomes.
Going by the characters close proximity they should have been more open. Or at the very least able to tell when one of them was acting off.
Honestly the more I think about it. Maybe my inability to enjoy the story has to do with my personal stance of of information sharing. As a child/teen/ early adult. I made less mistakes by having more information. Than if someone went out of their way to withhold.
@@asperkai6855 Definitely. We always bring our personal biases into account when experiencing anything. Maybe I didn't get far enough to see the pattern you're describing. But I was never captured from an emotional standpoint, which was interesting because I really enjoyed the first book and thought he handled the characters well.
@@JasonFuhrman The first book is the reason I pushed halfway through the book. Kept wanting there to be more character development. Sadly this never happened for me. Just continued to get worst.
Thank you for understanding, I didn’t want to ramble on your page.
@@asperkai6855 no need to apologize. That's what the comment section is for. Conversation
Although this is an old video, I feel obliged to comment.
At times, it was very convoluted and the characters all seemed a bit one-dimensional. The story was somewhat predictable, but the ties it ended up having with the first book (in my opinion) made the read worthwhile. There's an epilogue in which you learn the fates of the characters from the first book (Justineau & Melanie), so I would recommend trudging through it even if it's not very enjoyable- for the sake of the first novel. My biggest gripe with the book were its characters- they all were just completely uninteresting and at times just walking stereotypes.
Despite these flaws, I did find it somewhat enjoyable. The enrichment it provides to the franchises' lore is arguably its most valuable feature (in my opinion).
Sounds like you had some of the same issues I had. Good to know that there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Thanks!
I'm not sure i even made it to the end of the free sample. On the other hand, to give Carey his due, I've enjoyed everything 7:25 else I've trad by him so far: Infinity Gate, The Girl With All the Gifts, and the first two books of the Koli series.
I've only read The Girl With All the Gifts but need to check out more of his work. I don't plan on giving up here. Thanks for the recommendations!
I read the entire book from start to finish and I knew that the story was there but just wasn’t flushed out properly there was barely interaction with Samrina Khan and the father of the child John Sealy there was barely any interaction with them that when they were taken out by a tribe of some sort I did not feel an ounce of sadness nor grief when the characters were killed off it just did not deliver for me
Thanks for watching! Glad you had the fortitude to finish it. A small part of me always wonders if books I quit eventually get better. It was sad because I loved the first one so much.
Even just by returning to this topic after I read the boy on the bridge it’s not a good novel but if one of these days if the book is ever adapted into a movie I have a feeling that the movie might do a better job at establishing the characters/story than the book
I agree. I feel like sometimes movies do a better job. The Shining is a good example in my opinion.