Today’s team review is from Judith W, she blogs here https://readandreview2016.wordpress.com/
Judith has been reading Intraterrestrial by Nicholas Conley
Intraterrestrial is about Adam Helios, a bullied teenager who hears a voice claiming to come from the stars and fears he’s going mad. Following a terrible car crash, Adam is left seriously injured and his consciousness is abducted by the alien presence contacting him for months.
Intraterrestrial was decently written, although there were some frustrating uses of synonyms. As well as using the word ‘finger’, ‘appendages’ and ‘digits’ also get thrown around and this was just unnecessary. Synonyms can provide variation if you’re afraid of repetition, but sometimes the repetition of simple words is fine. No one says “I have hurt my appendages”.
Adam was a well-developed character; he felt very much like an ordinary kid – a sympathetic loser, if you will.
However, I wasn’t sure how to interpret…
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