I discovered Uncubicled by Josh McMains on Twitter while he was advertising it for 99c for the kindle edition. I didn’t have a Kindle yet, but I knew one was in my future so I got the book. Last night I finished reading it.
Would I recommend it? Not the paperback. It’s just too expensive. The 99c version of it on kindle was good. It was worth a buck. I’d pay anything up to five dollars for it as it’s a fun story that the cover does not sell at all. In fact, the more I read of the book the less I liked the cover. While you can’t tell a book by the cover I like to think you can tell what type of book it will be by the cover. Uncubicled was an action/adventure book with an office intrigue cover. If M. Night Shamalamadingdong were on crack and had a cattle prod massaging his spine THIS is the book he would write. OK. It’s not that full of twists… but there are a few more than it absolutely needed.
It’s a good first book. I really did enjoy it. I liked the characters, without giving anything away, in spite of the deus ex machina twist that got so predictable that I fully expected a can-opener to develop the trait that was over-used towards the end.
I read this book really wanting to love it. I’m a new author. I’m a fan of twitter, and was dying to “discover” a new author who was great and about to make it big in a huge way. This won’t be the book that does it as it stands now in my opinion. Will I read the next book he writes? Absolutely. I enjoyed it and I like supporting new authors. It’s a good novice effort. If I owned it in dead-tree version I’d loan it to friends if they promised to give it back. I own it digitally so I can’t loan it which is my biggest gripe with digital formatted books. They’re unloanable. This is a problem for new authors because I can’t loan the book to a friend so they can discover him and buy his second book. They can’t enjoy the thrill of discovering a new author without paying $20 for it. That’s a lot to pay for this book. Too much. THIS is the downside of digital.
The Book Review: Uncubicled by Josh McMains by Rich Griffith, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
