The Insecure Writer's Support Group Book Club discussion

Greetings book clubbers.

Please provide your answers to as many or as few of the questions as you’d like in the comments below. Feel free to ask more questions if you’d like.

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1. Which character was your favorite? Least favorite? Why?
2. Are there any places from the book you’d like to visit?
3. What feelings or emotions does this book evoke for you?
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Thank you, Yvette Carol, for inspiring these wonderful questions.

Feel free to also share your reviews and or thoughts on the book in your comments.

I haven’t finished the book yet, but I’m very close. I like it so far.

1. I really like GEO. No spoilers here, but even when he’s not so cute, he’s still a really cool support character.

2. I’m not sure about this question. I’m having trouble deciding if they are human-sized beings or bug-sized beings. If they are bug-size, I’d visit any of these places, otherwise, I’m out.

3. So far, this book brings me back to my childhood- nostalgia. It’s like reading Peter Pan for the first time or watching Neverending Story for the first time. It’s easy to enjoy the story without thinking too much about any flaws that might exist.

Here's my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I've decided to put my review here:

I won’t be reading this. I’ve started making these decisions based on the book package (title, blurb and cover). “The Or'in of Tane (The Chronicles of Aden Weaver #1)”: I like that it is in a series, but the actual title isn’t something that I can pronounce or remember easily. Most middle-grade books have an easy-to-remember title that ten-year-olds can pronounce. I got great advice from an editor once where it comes to middle grade fantasy: keep the titles and names simple. The blurb: so we learn what he has to do, find this stone, and that someone wants to kill him because he’s the chosen one. So what? Why should a reader care? Shapeshifters – awesome! But where’s the hook, the reason a reader should pick up the book and care about Aden? I do like the final paragraph “An ordinary boy. A vicious warlord. Both seek a stone with special powers. But only one can possess the Or’in of Tane.” And I do like the cover (though I don’t think the boy is eleven…). The book is in KU and right now I don’t feel like going through the trouble of asking a friend to get it for me and then borrowing their Kindle (especially not after the last time I did this for a Book Club book that didn’t impress me). So with only one thing in the book package I like out of three, it’s a no for me.