Review - Evan Burl and the Falling

Evan Burl and the Falling by Justin Blaney

Read: October the 2nd 2013

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Rating: 5/5 stars

My father abandoned me when I was an infant.
My friends have turned against me. 
My uncle beats me.
The most powerful people in the world want me dead.
They all have one thing in common.
They think I’m turning into a monster.

I’m starting to worry they’re right.

My Review:

Note to the author

I have not yet finished this book, I am only on Chapter Four so there is no need to take me seriously. But the "Note from the author on this Advanced Reader Copy," made me a bit sad. Mr. Justin Blaney there are so many different people in this world, no one is exactly the same and thus not everyone enjoys the same types of things. No one book will please everyone some people hate Twilight some people love it, the same goes for Shakespeare and his works. So not everyone will be pleased with cliffhanger endings like you have said your book has. Personally I would hate it if everyone loved every book, how would you know good books from bad ones if the world was like that? If you change things in your book to make the angry people happy there will still be others who will remain unsatisfied. So I think you should write Evan Burl and the Falling the way you envisioned it, not the way others do, I imagine it would make you happier in the long run. So far your book is reading like a masterpiece to me, I can easily see why some people might find themselves upset that it ends with questions unanswered since they love it so much and can't imagine waiting for the second book to be published.

After Reading

I loved this book. No seriously it was great. I liked Evan's confusion about the future and himself in general, not often do characters in YA novels feel uncertain in that way. He was brave in an honest kind of way, not because he wanted to prove anything to anyone but because he put others above himself. A lot of the main characters of books I read are brave to prove they can be, not that that's bad but its a nice change to find a book with a character who doesn't need to. Evan Burl and the Falling was an amazing book and I will probably end up pulling out some of my hair from having to wait for its sequel.