Micro God eBook KR Martin
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Richard Clarke is a man born with the unnatural ability to control all reality around himself. Whether it be granting himself immortality, stopping bullets in mid-air, or destroying his enemies with a mere thought, he is often feared as a god on Earth. However, outliving everyone he ever loved whilst losing friends to the limitations of his powers causes a heavy burden upon his shoulders, and in the 21st Century, Clarke is a stoic loner, traveling and living only to kill evil. He has no time for friends or family, but all that changes when he meets a dedicated doctor working in the dark streets of Detroit.
In Detroit, Clarke vows to eliminate all gangs terrorizing the city's populace. However, after delivering a junkie with a broken leg to a hospital, Clarke is given a chance to end his decades of rampages, killing criminals and villains. Instead, he is offered a chance to work in the hospital along the idealistic Doctor Chloe Hall. His powers give him an incredible edge in the emergency room and he soon realizes that he could save everyone who comes through the hospital doors. But the gangs are still out there, and Clarke has to make a choice. Should he keep killing, or should he begin saving lives?
"That which is destroyed cannot be repaired. That which is mended cannot be maintained."
Micro God eBook KR Martin
Richard Clarke is a man born with reality manipulating abilities that give him godlike power over a small vicinity. Clarke has lived a very long time, seeing countless friends and family grow old and die. Having lost so many loved ones and seen so much pain and suffering, Clarke has become jaded and isolated. In modern times, he travels from city to city, slaughtering gangsters and criminals. Everything changes when Clarke arrives in Detroit and meets an idealist named Chloe Hall, a beautiful and intelligent doctor who revives Clarke's faith in humanity. As their friendship grows, Clarke realizes that he may have an opportunity to put his days of vigilantism behind him and live a more peaceful life healing people rather than killing villains.Richard Clarke is a god of approximately five feet of his immediate surroundings. I want to start off by saying how much I love this premise! When you're writing fantasy or sci-fi, it's so easy to fall into the trap of making your characters over-powered, but Kyle R. Martin takes the OP-character and flips it in a way that I don't think I've ever seen before. His main character is a literal god on earth, but his power doesn't go beyond a few feet . . . which kinda puts a cramp in the whole being a god thing.
I first came across K. R. Martin through his YouTube channel KrimsonRogue, where he posts a very humorous vlog series called The Book Was Better, reviewing movie adaptations of popular novels. I'm a huge fan of his vlog series, and was very eager to read his book. I adore stories about redemption and rediscovering hope, so this book was right up my alley. I found the story very well structured, the action scenes were thrilling, and I connected with the main character enough to want him to find happiness (you'll have to read the book to find out if he does or not).
I enjoyed this book a great deal and I think it's a solid story, but I do have a few nitpicks. Nothing too serious, but some things I feel do warrant a mention. One is that I think the book is too short to fully flesh out the story. Everything felt a little rushed, and I think it needed an additional forty or fifty pages to better set up scenes, flesh out the characters' personalities, and develop Clarke and Chloe's relationship a bit more. That's just me though, and I think readers who prefer a quick read will probably like that Micro God is so compact. Other problems include a small number of grammatical mistakes I found here and there that must have slipped past the editing phase, and there were a few points in the story where Martin narrated the obvious. For example:
"The speech was entirely sociopathic and narcissistic."
Now lines like that didn't show up that often (maybe about three times), but when they did, it brought to mind the adage, "show, don't tell," except here, Martin had already effectively shown that the gangster was sociopathic and narcissistic, so the readers didn't really need it spelled out to them in the next line. Basically, Martin occasionally shows AND tells, which is a bit overkill.
Okay, nitpicking done. I enjoyed this book and hope Richard Clarke shows up again in Martin's later books, assuming he can get over his writer's block (Sorry for the dig, Kyle. I just watched your Prince of Persia review and couldn't help myself). I give Micro God 4 stars out of 5.
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Micro God eBook KR Martin Reviews
Absolutely brilliant. You did an amazing job creating a plot that wasn't over done, yet had an extreme amount of possibilities to work with. I really enjoyed reading something so original that avoids so many clichés. The science of how Clarke cannot create food was very interesting as well, and it reminded me of Jurassic park (in the sense of made up science sounding legitimate).
You did an amazing job creating likable characters, and balancing out some bad traits with redeemable qualities. Richard especially, considering times where he switches from being a bored, grumpy man to being amusing or happy. It also made me feel a strange sense of satisfaction when he killed Freddie G, because he mentions a few times about how death and murder don't entertain or bother him much anymore, yet when Chloe dies, he feels grief and intense sadness. However, he also feels the need for revenge and finds a sort of joy when he gets his revenge.
The setting I found very immersive, even though it didn't travel very far. I don't quite realize the small number of settings in the book until the end. You did an amazing job on giving the environments depth and description, even with little things like the dirty chairs in the beginning.
Me being a young writer, found a lot of joy and inspiration in your story. I hope to see more work from you, and you can bet I'll buy it!
~Elizabeth
You know, I liked it a lot more than I expected. The book started off good; for the most part it had strong writing and believable characters. I was invested in the story. Yet it fell through towards the end. Half-way through the writing got lazy. Places in the description got cliche, characterization fell through and became inconsistent, and the ending was terribly rushed. This story definitely needed another run through in workshop or a beta reader with writing experience, because I could literally point at passages where things fell through. But the failing of this book could be traced back to the sheer length; if the book had been longer, subplot could have been extended to better show the shift in Clarke's perception--changing his cynical views to a more hopeful outlook. As it is now, the shift is too fast and unbelievable and it comes with the arrival of a minor character (who wasn't at all believable in his characterization) who's only function was to be this instigator of change. That was terrible. Who would believe that a former junkie would want to be a politician? I can believe he'd want to help people. But a politician?! No. Come on. When my dad got clean, he focused on art and family. Others hold AA meetings or do charity work or turn to religion. This isn't how addicts think and the writing reflected a naivety with the author. It was too easy of a fix and the effect it had on Clarke was too easy as well. I don't care how long Clarke's been alive, no one who witnessed a friend get murdered suddenly have hope for humanity the same day after a two-minute talk from a former junkie. Like I said, it got lazy towards the end. But the author definitely has the potential to do better. I hope he learns from his mistakes.
Richard Clarke is a man born with reality manipulating abilities that give him godlike power over a small vicinity. Clarke has lived a very long time, seeing countless friends and family grow old and die. Having lost so many loved ones and seen so much pain and suffering, Clarke has become jaded and isolated. In modern times, he travels from city to city, slaughtering gangsters and criminals. Everything changes when Clarke arrives in Detroit and meets an idealist named Chloe Hall, a beautiful and intelligent doctor who revives Clarke's faith in humanity. As their friendship grows, Clarke realizes that he may have an opportunity to put his days of vigilantism behind him and live a more peaceful life healing people rather than killing villains.
Richard Clarke is a god of approximately five feet of his immediate surroundings. I want to start off by saying how much I love this premise! When you're writing fantasy or sci-fi, it's so easy to fall into the trap of making your characters over-powered, but Kyle R. Martin takes the OP-character and flips it in a way that I don't think I've ever seen before. His main character is a literal god on earth, but his power doesn't go beyond a few feet . . . which kinda puts a cramp in the whole being a god thing.
I first came across K. R. Martin through his YouTube channel KrimsonRogue, where he posts a very humorous vlog series called The Book Was Better, reviewing movie adaptations of popular novels. I'm a huge fan of his vlog series, and was very eager to read his book. I adore stories about redemption and rediscovering hope, so this book was right up my alley. I found the story very well structured, the action scenes were thrilling, and I connected with the main character enough to want him to find happiness (you'll have to read the book to find out if he does or not).
I enjoyed this book a great deal and I think it's a solid story, but I do have a few nitpicks. Nothing too serious, but some things I feel do warrant a mention. One is that I think the book is too short to fully flesh out the story. Everything felt a little rushed, and I think it needed an additional forty or fifty pages to better set up scenes, flesh out the characters' personalities, and develop Clarke and Chloe's relationship a bit more. That's just me though, and I think readers who prefer a quick read will probably like that Micro God is so compact. Other problems include a small number of grammatical mistakes I found here and there that must have slipped past the editing phase, and there were a few points in the story where Martin narrated the obvious. For example
"The speech was entirely sociopathic and narcissistic."
Now lines like that didn't show up that often (maybe about three times), but when they did, it brought to mind the adage, "show, don't tell," except here, Martin had already effectively shown that the gangster was sociopathic and narcissistic, so the readers didn't really need it spelled out to them in the next line. Basically, Martin occasionally shows AND tells, which is a bit overkill.
Okay, nitpicking done. I enjoyed this book and hope Richard Clarke shows up again in Martin's later books, assuming he can get over his writer's block (Sorry for the dig, Kyle. I just watched your Prince of Persia review and couldn't help myself). I give Micro God 4 stars out of 5.
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