( 6 reviews )
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Posted: Feb 6 2009
I enjoyed this story because I felt like it didn't try hard to be anything more than a fun story. Sure, agreed, alot more meaning could have been cultivated from the characters experience in the Third World, but I feel like that wasn't why the story was written. Everything between the covers serves just the story. It doesn't play up to a higher, deeper meaning, and that's fine. A great story might do that. This was a fun story with high suspense exploding into flowing action sequences. The characters were vibrant. The setting... I find myself remembering it like I were there. I dig. I give 4 because I thought the prose was a little uneven at times. Maybe could have used another revision.
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( 9 of 13 found this review helpful ) Posted: Jun 27 2005
Shawn Shiflett should pay people to read this. I paid 1.00 for my copy and still want a refund. He gives his students extra credit to write a good review. His family has a mafia style grip at the fiction writing department at columbia college. Luckily it's summer and I plan to transfer out so I can FINALLY be honest. This book sucks. If you are desperate to read read the ingredients in your Tropicana Juice, trust me it's more interesting and the plot is probably 100x better!
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( 8 of 13 found this review helpful ) Posted: Jun 27 2005
This book is BAD. If it wasn't for the fact SHAWN SHIFLETT forced his students to write good reviews on amazon he would have NONE. This book is so bad, his main characters are made of jello with no concrete ideas or emotions in them. If it wasn't for the fact his family ran COLUMBIA COLLEGE CHICAGO this man would have never been aloud to publish this horrible book. As a mexican american I find it insulting that this man stationed his characters in Mexico and used such bad dialogue while there. Although his characters are only imaginary, this book might actually have a bad effect on tourism in mexico. WOW, this book sucks.
