Tinker by Wes Spencer
I have
so many problems with this book that every time I think about it I feel like
taking away a star.
In the first quarter of the book, Tinker seems to be OK as a person. She goes through
a fight for her life. She saves somebody's life. It seems to me then, that she
would be a well put together character. I was so wrong.
By the second quarter of the book, Tinker demonstrates such immaturity for a person
living by herself for 5 years. She owns and runs her own business and is
considered a genius inventor but her actions are totally in disagreement with
what the author told us. I would expect her to be naïve in certain aspects but
she was plain dumb.
She
doesn't know the elven culture or their language very well but she accepts a
gift without understanding the meaning of the gift and is too stupid to ask. So
she ends up married to an elf. Later on, she unknowingly consents in being
transformed into an elf because she can't freaking speak the language but
doesn't ask the elf to speak in English and explain to her what he wants to do.
He's performing a magic ritual but she's only worried about having sex.
WTF?
That's
when I started to fear this the future of this book. I just knew I was going to
have problems with the story.
Tinker
is an elf now and returns to her house after her transformation. She's not
freaked out or mad or confused. She has no emotions about any of this. And then
she's almost raped by her friend and again she shows no emotion or trauma.
Nothing. She just continues with her day. Right after all of this Ricky, her
new employee shows up and has a fit when he sees that she's now an elf and she
doesn't see anything wrong with it and trusts him enough to listen to his
suggestion to get away from her bodyguard. Tinker let herself be influenced by
somebody she's just met and that reacted really bad to her being transformed to
an elf. Why?
WTF,
Tinker?
And
then, She's the pivot! hahahahaha! She's a freaking chosen one! Destined!
I had
to stop this book and read something else. Actually, several "something
else" before I could come back. I felt like DNFing this book so many times
but I'm trying to give more chances to the book.
Those
are only my problems with Tinker. The plot could be so much better. The general
idea has a lot of promise but the execution didn't work for me. Especially
because there was a lot of racism in the book. She brings the Japanese Pantheon
as the Bad guys but in this book they are Chinese. So we have the Oni, the
Kitsune and the Tengu that infiltrated the Chinese government and they are all
bad. A whole race of bad and cruel people. All of them are bad. In this system,
the Oni are the ones in power and the Kitsune and the Tengu are their subjects.
They suffer from the cruelty of the Oni but it's OK because they are bad too.
Nobody revolts or try to fight this system. They want to eliminate to Elves and
take over their land and possessions and bring all of their people from their
dimension to earth.
Xenophobia
and World Domination.
I
could go on and on about the things I didn't like about this book but I would
be here all week.
I'm
not continuing with this series. I'm done.
