Legend of Apollo Barcode Book 1 eBook Kashif Ross Stephanie Yang Roxanne Piskel
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Legend of Apollo is the first installment of the Barcode Series. This novel, like the series, was designed for readers in search of something “different.” It was designed to oppose the Hero’s Journey, which is why the opening lines briefly detail the death of the protagonist, Spencer Colt.
Readers are encouraged to hate Spencer. He is a naturally gifted gladiator that is praised as a superhuman capable of liberating America from an evil dictator. Moreover, he is an arrogant, pompous little prick that has wasted most of his life grieving the loss of his mother and further spoiling the tainted relationship that he shares with his neglectful father.
Legend of Apollo takes a more realistic approach to a hero.
Just think. What would truly happen if a super man were glorified for his abilities? How would he react to women that long for him? How would he overcome adversity when he is privileged? What will happen to his ego? Who would love him? And how will his world change once a true villain disrupts his picture perfect world?
Remember, this is not for the weak hearted. This is what happens when good meets bad, in an environment where pain and grief run ramped.
Legend of Apollo Barcode Book 1 eBook Kashif Ross Stephanie Yang Roxanne Piskel
I didn’t really get this new take on superheroes. Apparently, some people are born with a tattooed barcode that grants them Godlike powers. (The only gods that I recall in the book are Greek and the Hindu goddess Shiva. I wonder if the author deliberately chose not to invoke the gods of the monotheistic religions to avoid controversy.)People born with particularly large barcodes are inevitably evil. One such evil god is Helios. Spencer (Apollo) was raised from birth with the ultimate goal of killing Helios. It takes a long time to get there and I found myself struggling to keep reading. Spencer is not a particularly likable or interesting character. The author tried to give the clueless Spencer some depth by having two girls fighting over him, but it didn’t do the trick. In fact, I was annoyed by the whole situation.
The editing was atrocious and needed much better proofreading. Some examples include the sentence “This,” and “I doubt he’ll be able to use the anything here,” and “There are ways to gain more strength, but only if we before their slaves,” and “We’re having an amazing our service soon.” Unfortunately, there are many more.
Astonishingly there are 5 books in this series. Judging from this book, your time and money would be better spent elsewhere.
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Legend of Apollo Barcode Book 1 eBook Kashif Ross Stephanie Yang Roxanne Piskel Reviews
I finished this book last night and have thought over it and I'm still not entirely sure what it was about. Something with barcodes on people that give them powers of gods, and some evil that Spencer is suppose to fight. That is about all I gleamed from it. I don't even feel like I can give a synopsis of the book.
The romance was some weird love triangle, that really didn't make much sense. Spencer only really ever spent his time with one of the girls but claimed to love both of them when he knew nothing about the other. I kinda wanted to smack him in the head over that.
I think what this book needs is some cleaning up, cause even though I never really understood what was going on in it I actually wanted to finish reading it. Maybe just to see if it would start to make sense to me, or cause I really wanted to know what was going to happen at the end. The author just needs to explain in a clearer manor exactly what the barcodes are, and the world that this is taking place in. From what I got it was suppose to be some high tech America. . . but really data sharing and things that like just didn't want to make sense to me. Could be just me that was having this problem.
Would I recommend this book? Probably, just cause I would want someone else to bounce the idea of this book off of so that I could figure it out.
Barcode Book 1 is a fun, interesting story that seems to be pretty heavily influenced by traditional battle manga and anime.
The influence isn't just obvious from the cover - it shows quite a bit in the the humor, the romance and the thematic setting. The humor sometimes doesn't work so well - usually quirky character traits (Spencer's fear of snakes) - and just seems out of place. The romance borders on your typical anime or manga harem, though it doesn't delve so deep into that, and is actually pretty engaging. The battling, of course, is quite similar to what you may find in an anime. Powers given to humans by the divine, used to combat each other at superhuman levels is pretty standard for anime and manga. So, if you're into all that kind of stuff, this may be right up your alley.
The writing is decent. Ross chose to narrate from a first person, present tense perspective, which can be awkward sometimes. It works well enough, but you'll read a lot of sentences using very similar structures, and that can be frustrating. Some grammatical errors are scattered throughout as well, but nothing so glaring that it ruins the experience.
As for the ending, I totally understand why it didn't jive with some folks. It's sudden, unexpected, and unprepared. I think a lot of it is a result of the narrative perspective. It doesn't allow you to prepare for a large change in direction for the series, and makes a lot of your investment seem wasted. I, however, think it's a respectable choice and the book stands well enough as it is. I'm excited to see where the story goes with the new direction. I think it'll be much more interesting as it is.
Story is five stars, but some grammatical and style issues bring it down to a four.
Tbh the first time I read it, I stop mid way since it was really confusing at times.
Many MONTHS LATER since I was free I decided to finish it I think I skip some chapters by mistake (kindle buttoms).
And I'm glad I did, since it becomes good at the end.
I started reading Cavern of Youth without much hope but it turn out to be so good, I had to reread THE LEGEND OF APOLLO again to understand half of the things that are going on (since remember I skip chapters by mistakes and I didn't like much the book so I didn't bother rereading it after so many months has pass since I started it I just wanted to finish it.).
And here I am now the book is not as confusing as before now that I know what type of world they are in what to expect and knowing more about each character. I find myself trying to find clues in this book of things they mentioned in Cavern of Youth but actually started here, and I can see some characters and understand why they act like that.
So I would recommend this book to anyone that is looking for some fresh air.
if you find it confusing you could start by cavern of youth and end up like me hook to the point I want to know what's going on.
This has been hanging out in my kindle forever so I am assuming at some point it was a freebie. It reads like an "Anime" movie. I really liked it. Way future dystopian, evolution type book that still leaves a lot of unanswered back story. I read it as fiction, as it was intended. Told through the eyes of teenagers, in fact most of the characters are teens. So there is the usual sexual references and mild swearing, it's all about fighting so lots of violence. Think gladiators of the future. I can recommend for High School age and up. Adults may not like all the teen stuff. I didn't mind so much. Quite a lot of humor. Four stars from me.
I didn’t really get this new take on superheroes. Apparently, some people are born with a tattooed barcode that grants them Godlike powers. (The only gods that I recall in the book are Greek and the Hindu goddess Shiva. I wonder if the author deliberately chose not to invoke the gods of the monotheistic religions to avoid controversy.)
People born with particularly large barcodes are inevitably evil. One such evil god is Helios. Spencer (Apollo) was raised from birth with the ultimate goal of killing Helios. It takes a long time to get there and I found myself struggling to keep reading. Spencer is not a particularly likable or interesting character. The author tried to give the clueless Spencer some depth by having two girls fighting over him, but it didn’t do the trick. In fact, I was annoyed by the whole situation.
The editing was atrocious and needed much better proofreading. Some examples include the sentence “This,” and “I doubt he’ll be able to use the anything here,” and “There are ways to gain more strength, but only if we before their slaves,” and “We’re having an amazing our service soon.” Unfortunately, there are many more.
Astonishingly there are 5 books in this series. Judging from this book, your time and money would be better spent elsewhere.
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