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Taking the Reader’s seat5/15/2018 I received a notification of a review of My Angel the Devil from ReadersFavorite and promptly hopped on the page to read it. I must admit I was quite taken aback by the honesty of the review.
I wrote My Angel the Devil with the aim of telling a story. One of what happens and can happen when evil comes knocking on our doorsteps. First-hand knowledge and tales told from people affected by actions of hate and greed guided my hand. So hearing the whole plot in blunt honesty was shocking. I decided to take the reader’s seat. So one day I ordered a hard copy and when I received it, I started reading like any other novel. Viga Boland’s review was apt. it is a dark book. It sheds the light on suffering of people and most importantly humanity’s ability to pull through anything. I finished the book glad for the ending, happy that if I indeed had some satisfaction, then some reader’s would. Please be warned it is a heavy book.
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April 19th, 20184/19/2018
The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
My rating: 5 of 5 stars I started reading the 3 Body Problem as you would any book. That is, wait for the plot to sink in, characters that stands out. Etc. Then I got to Ch6: the Shooter and the farmer and realised I was doing it all wrong. Cixin Liu is Chinese, from a culture where verbal expressions are not as in-depth as written ones. A Hanzi ‘word’ can literally have a thousand meanings. So to understand the plot, you must clear your head, dive in and allow every paragraph to lead you. And this is way, things will start falling into place. You learn to understand Ye Wenjie, her trials and what eventually moulds her. Why be the judge of humans? Then you get attached to Wang Miao who gets pulled in by reasons yet unknown. He is told to infiltrate a game that places people in a virtual world to solve the 3 body problem. A not so easy task, (even for a Nano-scientist) and I will let others think on this. Just look at it this way, how stable and liveable will a planet be if it has three suns? (view spoiler)[ The plot thickens and the easiest part is that such a planet does exist and logically, ours is more stable. But then again we are quite different, one communicates with thought, regardless of distance-thereby almost eliminating deceit. The other, well that’s us… It does not end there; Trisolarans can de-hydrate and get stored as scrolls during chaos eras (bad suns) and re-hydrate during stable eras (good suns). Also, out of necessity, a technologically advanced society. They set their sights on our solar system and just to be sure we don’t have the capacity to defend ourselves, they send multi-dimensional computers that block the advancement of physics. Bam! (hide spoiler)] View all my reviews Plot Change4/16/2018 As I have let on a few times now, my new book is about a historical heroine. So far it has been a wonderful journey.
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Dan Agbeje was born in Brisbane and followed his parents to Nigeria, where he spent most of his younger days. His first book, My Angel the Devil was published in 2017. Archives
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