“Shinigamai: God Of Death by Django Wexler
Django Wexler's dark fantasy Shinigami starts at the end. The end of the lives of the main characters to be exact... Sylph(age:14) and Lina Walker(age:16). When they next wake they find themselves in the world of Omega, a war ridden land, where people do as they are told by the Archmagas or have the souls of their (as yet unborn) babies taken away. Legend has it that there is a even worse and far more powerful being called the Light Bringer that no one has ever stood against and lived to tell the tale. There are few fighters that will stand against Gargorian's armies and most of them are Lina's age or younger. Lina finds a magical sword just laying around and helps one of these fighters, soon the sisters find themselves on the way to the campsite, where news is spreading of another attack yet to come. That's where Sylph a genius who happened to play a lot of war games back on Earth steps in with a plan. When her plan works and Lina's sword shows it's power to the rest of the fighters they soon find themselves at the center of the war. The begin to call Lina "The Liberator", and have faith that she will, in fact, liberate them. Sylph becomes a sort-of general in the war, she plans the attacks, creates new weapons, and uses tactics no one has ever heard of to win the battles! Soon they have a following big enough to take straight to Gargorian himself, but the battle ahead is just the beginning of their problems!
I have to say this book made me feel somewhat cheated! The book clearly states it's about a 14-year-old and a 16-year-old, however it would be extremely inappropriate for a person of that age level to read this! I This book should have had a big waning label posted on the front saying, "WARNING! This book contains mature content such as: graphic battle scenes, sex, rape, and torture!" and believe me, it did have every last one of those. I can't say I would recommend this book to anyone I know, and would only suggest you read this book if you are comfortable with the content I have listed above! That being said, there were some things, that I did like such as the ongoing mystery of what was going to happen next, and how were they going to defeat THIS bad guy! But other than that the only thing that kept me going on this book was that fact that I owed a review, even then, it took me weeks just to finish this book! If there had been a review like this, I wouldn't have read this book!”
Melody M wrote this review Thursday, September 25 2008.
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