J. Ivers

Halo was pretty good book but it included some things within that I couldn't agree. As a atheist the religional subtext was really annoying, expecially how it showed in the book. I got the feeling from the book that you're good if you believe in God and do as he has said, and that you're bad if you don't. It was really black and white, which was really annoying. The book and character's itself was really black and white. It's not realistic because life isn't black and white. The plot was pretty predictable which took most of the trilling away. Character's were okay but they didn't have much depth in them. They were unfinished. When I was reading it, I got the feeling that writer must have been pretty young when she write Halo. After reading I found out that she was pretty young. Being young published author isn't bad thing but in Halo it showed so much that it distracted reading - expecially when I felt more mature than books plot or any character. I recommented that you think twice if you want read Halo in case if you don't like books for young adults. I'd say that Halo is pretty much for religious people and teenagers - for them I recommend it but not so much for people who isn't religious or whose doesn't enjoy books for teenagers. Halo's idea was good and some character's interesting, like Gabriel and Ivy (for their long life and everything they've experienced), but implementation wasn't so good. Most of character's, expecially Bethany, were unfinished. Maybe Adornetto has deepened character's in sequel's but in Halo most of character's felt unfinished - like they would've created in hurry and that they were just made for stereotypies. Halo is readable book and if you like religious subtext and books for teenagers, it could be pretty good for you. But to be it wasn't special or that good so I'll give it only two stars.

I read Escape from Hell! a while ago. I loved it from the start and it is definetely one of my favourite books all time. Duncan is amazing writer and he really knows what he does. Plot, characters and implementation were wonderfull. There wasn't anything unfinished. Books world were thoroughly created - it was almost too realistic. It made me feel the depths of human nature, the bad and the unjustice. And that's because it was amazing. It was so realistic. Character's were as realistic as everything else in the book. I loved them - even the ones that annoyed me. There wasn't anything black and white, everything were in every shades of grey. Character's were like real persons: people who lives next door or who you meet in supermarket. I want to bring up expecially Matthew, Seven and Lucifer. They were my absolute favourite characters. And I liked that Duncan wrote about homosexual character. It's refreshing. It's really shame that there's so little homosexual character's in literature, expecially homosexual main characters. Points for that to Duncan! I have very little words for this book. Read it. Yes, it's really realistic. Yes, there's no romance in it. Yes, sometimes it's even too sickening. Still, read it. It's amazing and I loved every single page of it. It's brilliant and Duncan is genious. I really hope that there'll sequels as Duncan has said.