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The Extent of Logic
Escape into the world of the rich and famous, with love, secrets, murder, and betrayal.
Jia Choi comes from a noble family that will do anything to preserve their ancestors' culture... including marrying her off to a descendent of island royalty.
Rylan Marlowe's father owns the hotel chain that flooded the island with tourism, kicking the native culture to the curb.
After a chance meeting, Jia and Rylan swear they would do anything to be together. In a world that does NOT want them together, they have to fight for their chance at happily ever after.
This stand-alone romance novel is a modern twist on a Shakespearian classic.
Read when you're in the mood for a sweet love story with a little faith, a lot of heart, and tons of drama.
Jia Choi comes from a noble family that will do anything to preserve their ancestors' culture... including marrying her off to a descendent of island royalty.
Rylan Marlowe's father owns the hotel chain that flooded the island with tourism, kicking the native culture to the curb.
After a chance meeting, Jia and Rylan swear they would do anything to be together. In a world that does NOT want them together, they have to fight for their chance at happily ever after.
This stand-alone romance novel is a modern twist on a Shakespearian classic.
Read when you're in the mood for a sweet love story with a little faith, a lot of heart, and tons of drama.
188 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 9, 2016
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February 7, 2017
I'm a sucker for a reboot. This story is a modern day Romeo and Juliet.
Jia is a very sweet but, extremely naive and extremely weak girl from a wealthy family. She is extremely under her mothers thumb and barely makes any decisions for herself. I did like Rylan but, he was just a tad bit to much of a cry baby thinking every one has a agenda to destroy him.
Jia and Rylan met a party and she is instantly attracted to him and quickly realizes he's a wrong pick for her cause his family is her family's rival.
Jia is lead to believe the unthinkable about Rylan and barely gives him the benefit of the doubt before she makes a horrible decision. There's a lot of twists and turns in this book and if you liked Romeo and Juliet this is a book you would want to give a go too.
Jia is a very sweet but, extremely naive and extremely weak girl from a wealthy family. She is extremely under her mothers thumb and barely makes any decisions for herself. I did like Rylan but, he was just a tad bit to much of a cry baby thinking every one has a agenda to destroy him.
Jia and Rylan met a party and she is instantly attracted to him and quickly realizes he's a wrong pick for her cause his family is her family's rival.
Jia is lead to believe the unthinkable about Rylan and barely gives him the benefit of the doubt before she makes a horrible decision. There's a lot of twists and turns in this book and if you liked Romeo and Juliet this is a book you would want to give a go too.
February 6, 2017
I was given this book to give an honest review.
The Extent of Logic by author Bailey Rothermel is a modern take on Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare. As an English literature major, I know the book very well, and I was curious to see how the story was adapted to fit in our present day. I was excited because the main female protagonist is Asian and I rarely find books with Asian characters (is she Chinese or Korean? Considering the surnames exist in both cultures).
We have our Romeo, Rylan Marlowe, who sells drugs to make a living despite he is the son of a couple who owns hotels in Hawaii. Then we have our Juliet, Jia Choi, who is a model, and her parents were born on the island and don't like the Marlowes because of their business and the fact that it is destroying the culture of the island.
This was a good Shakespeare retelling, but it had some glitches. While this could have worked as a play, there had to be done more work on the text, characters and plot. Writing-wise, the author is good. I didn't find any problem with the grammar and spelling, although some words like "wad of cash" - to say one that I kept in mind - were repeated too many times from my taste. In that matter, I love when an author shows that she crafted the text so that it doesn't have the same words every other page; it makes the journey towards the end more enjoyable.
Speaking of the characters, I felt as if they were stereotypical. Jia is a naive girl who is highly influenced by her mother and only in the last few pages she stands up for herself! I hate when this happens, because it doesn't show any growth, it makes a character detestable in my book. This is why I said it would've worked as a play, the time spent "watching" the action is less but a reader wants to see progress, not a girl who gets treated like a child by her mother who throws every bitchy comment at her, and she cries and doesn't try to do something about it. I can understand it in the first chapters, but until the end? Rylan had more personality, but even he looked like a girl sometimes - always crying, always thinking the world was easy, and naive as well. Yes, the original Romeo and Juliet were like this as well - two young people who fell in love at first sight and quick to submit to whoever asked them to do this or that. But like I said, that is a play. In a book, I crave for character development.
On the plot, I liked some way things were told, but I didn't some others. Third person narrator can be OK to change perspective, but not when it's done without a logic. We had a scene where for example we saw Jia's perspective switch from, I don't know, a secondary character like her mom and her POV. I'm not saying this won't work, but perhaps if you put a space in between the paragraphs, it would be more organized, so to speak. I think the author fixed this in the middle of the book, though. Besides this, I couldn't grasp how some things happened. For example:
I am sorry to give such a rating, and I think that this is not a book everyone could love because of the reasons I pointed out above, or there could be somebody who would like what I criticized. But I also believe in improvement. Of course it is up to the author, I am just stating my honest opinion about the book. I thank the author for giving me a copy of her book that, however, I was glad to have read as a Shakespeare enthusiast who wanted a different ending to his play.
The Extent of Logic by author Bailey Rothermel is a modern take on Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare. As an English literature major, I know the book very well, and I was curious to see how the story was adapted to fit in our present day. I was excited because the main female protagonist is Asian and I rarely find books with Asian characters (is she Chinese or Korean? Considering the surnames exist in both cultures).
We have our Romeo, Rylan Marlowe, who sells drugs to make a living despite he is the son of a couple who owns hotels in Hawaii. Then we have our Juliet, Jia Choi, who is a model, and her parents were born on the island and don't like the Marlowes because of their business and the fact that it is destroying the culture of the island.
This was a good Shakespeare retelling, but it had some glitches. While this could have worked as a play, there had to be done more work on the text, characters and plot. Writing-wise, the author is good. I didn't find any problem with the grammar and spelling, although some words like "wad of cash" - to say one that I kept in mind - were repeated too many times from my taste. In that matter, I love when an author shows that she crafted the text so that it doesn't have the same words every other page; it makes the journey towards the end more enjoyable.
Speaking of the characters, I felt as if they were stereotypical. Jia is a naive girl who is highly influenced by her mother and only in the last few pages she stands up for herself! I hate when this happens, because it doesn't show any growth, it makes a character detestable in my book. This is why I said it would've worked as a play, the time spent "watching" the action is less but a reader wants to see progress, not a girl who gets treated like a child by her mother who throws every bitchy comment at her, and she cries and doesn't try to do something about it. I can understand it in the first chapters, but until the end? Rylan had more personality, but even he looked like a girl sometimes - always crying, always thinking the world was easy, and naive as well. Yes, the original Romeo and Juliet were like this as well - two young people who fell in love at first sight and quick to submit to whoever asked them to do this or that. But like I said, that is a play. In a book, I crave for character development.
On the plot, I liked some way things were told, but I didn't some others. Third person narrator can be OK to change perspective, but not when it's done without a logic. We had a scene where for example we saw Jia's perspective switch from, I don't know, a secondary character like her mom and her POV. I'm not saying this won't work, but perhaps if you put a space in between the paragraphs, it would be more organized, so to speak. I think the author fixed this in the middle of the book, though. Besides this, I couldn't grasp how some things happened. For example:
I am sorry to give such a rating, and I think that this is not a book everyone could love because of the reasons I pointed out above, or there could be somebody who would like what I criticized. But I also believe in improvement. Of course it is up to the author, I am just stating my honest opinion about the book. I thank the author for giving me a copy of her book that, however, I was glad to have read as a Shakespeare enthusiast who wanted a different ending to his play.
January 17, 2017
I read this book over a few weeks and had to take a break in between, saying that this was not a book for me. Most books I read I can't put down, this book while the writing was good and I liked the story line of a modern day Romeo and Juliet I just didn't click with it. I will say this book gave me strong emotions with the characters as I really did not like some of them so any book that can do that is worth a read! I did like Jia but thought she was sheltered and very very naive when it came to things, I also couldn't help but root for her to be with Rylan!
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