Paul Sean

Rating 2.5 but closer to 3 (Check out extended review on The Review Board)

What drew me to check out this title was its’ synopsis: An unemployed man desperate for work agrees to take a job offered by a friend.

This made me wonder what would this guy do and how far would he go. I also wondered how all of the action would get summed up in the span of five days. What could possibly go so horribly wrong on the job?

I noticed that the main character has a bit of hatred towards Wall Street. I was waiting for the connection between his anger and his situation. It didn't hit home to me, other than the fact he was aggravated at Wall Street itself.

One line I could definitely relate to because I have experienced this: The low paying jobs won’t hire me because I am overqualified and the good paying jobs are far and few between.

Kudos: Non-stop action. I did like the fast pace of the book.

However, despite the pace of the book, there are some opportunities for improvement which could have made Five Days an even better read:

More character detail: I would like to be able to vision what each character looks like, particularly the main character. What was his personality like? How could he turn from the mild mannered man who doesn’t want any trouble to this take no prisoners hero?

What did the villains look like? What were the facial expressions when one of them knew he was facing death? Certain things like that would help in visualizing the action.

Proofreading: There were quite a bit of noticeable grammatical errors. The author should have taken some extra time to check his work or have someone else check it prior to publication.

Conclusion—

My Take on Five Days: Full of potential but the gleam isn't at optimum shine.… (meer)

Short story.
Really didn't like it at all, and wouldn't have finished it except for the fact that it was really short.
Story is very poorly written and contains numerous spelling and grammar mistakes. Besides that, there's a lot of strong language used, which I didn't really like much. The story itself is boring and uninteresting; it's a very cliché and unoriginal story, and the characters are very unidimensional and therefore also uninteresting. I never got drawn into the events or felt any connection to any of the characters.
On top of the points above, I found the main character a whiny idiot and he annoyed me a lot.… (meer)