[SIC] by Scott Kelly with Review

[sic]

By

Scott Kelly

 One rule: If another player taps you on the shoulder, you have to completely change your life within the next fifteen minutes. In front of everyone. Your car, your virginity, your grades, your identity – nothing is safe. When five high school students from the wrong part of town devote their lives to playing the game David invented, they walk a line between insanity and enlightenment. 

Excerpt

My personal savior is named David Bloom, and presently he’s falling about ten stories from the top of a water tower. And my stupid stunned mind; all I can think is that he looks great doing it. Arms spread, fingertips extended, face serene—homicide by stage dive. His body returns to the earth below, the ten-story drop reducing him to a streak of white and blue cloth, brown hair blown back from closed eyes. Maybe he’s smiling. Maybe I just like to think so. 

My Review

 I was really looking forward to reading this book. I loved the premise and found parts interesting. BUT, the writing just didn't flow for me. It flipped back and forth from the past to the present so quickly. The characters and the story just didn't grip me like I was expecting it would. After reading all the rave reviews on both Amazon and GoodReads, I was reading for an exceptional read. Maybe I set my expectations too high. A lot of others seemed to love it, it just wasn't for me. 

Not My Kinda Book

AUTHOR INFORMATION:

When Scott was eleven, he was so upset by the ending of the classic story Robin Hood  that he wrote his own and stuck it into the book. When he was fourteen he finished his first novel. By the time he was nineteen, he’d written four–the latest, JIMWAMBA, was published by an independent press in the United Kingdom. Dissatisfied with the experience, he took to stealing paper from his University and selling staple-bound copies of his manuscript at local festivals and gatherings, earning him a cult following that only grew as his eBook FRIGHTENED BOY reached its thirty-thousandth reader. He is a presence in the burgeoning social writing scene as a contest judge for the website BookRix, winner of WeBook’s “Page to Fame” contest, and chart-topper/featured author on the website WattPad. Over fifty-thousand people have read one of Scott’s novels online.

Scott’s constant need to improve his writing took him through a college education in Literature. He became determined to bring what he loved about classic literature to the modern reader, in a manner they’d appreciate as something new, but with its dues paid.

Scott Kelly is the ‘fresh new voice.’ He writes daring literature that asks difficult questions about the nature of humanity, but layers it in so many delicious coatings of action, thrills, and intrigue that readers often forget they are reading novels that address delicate questions about identity, perception and death. He delights in taking complex philosophical and metaphysical themes, but breaking them down using entertaining, familiar story setups – that he then mangles in attractive ways.

Now twenty-eight, he performs intellectual property duty for a lab where experimental drugs and chemicals are concocted. But while the chemists are busy filling beakers, Scott is trying to save compelling, thought-provoking literature for a new wave of readers.

LINKS:

Website: www.ScottKellyWritesBooks.com

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/sic-ebook/dp/B008ZFYVIE/ref=reg_hu-rd_add_1_dp

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ScottKellyWrites

Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15847364-sic