Give me (Another) Book anyday....

I can safely say I am very disappointed with Womack's The Other Book! I have been trying to read it for the past few days and have gotten no further than chapter 3, page 68 to be precise.

While the initial idea of the plot in itself is actually very good, Womack failed to draw me into the story beyond the first few pages, I fought myself as far as I did. Even by chapter 3 I was still unsure as to when the book is set. Yes best way to describe The Other Book is to think of The Spiderwick Chronicals; a boy discovers an ancient book hidden in a house out of which dark, evil forces emerge.... You get the picture. But sadly, I simply couldn't get further than grasping a basic gist of the story, even scanning pages didnt help.

The initial character building of the main protagonist, Edward Pollock was good to begin with, the reader is then left in limbo as to who he really is and how he has come to be at the school.... and how the manor has become a school for that matter. Yes that is possibly revealed later on, but the reader needs the pull from the author to continue reading and sadly Womack did not deliver this.

All in all, a good idea but one that fails on page and is poorly structured. Im not saying don't read it as Im sure some people would thoroughly enjoy it and it is worth the attempt to read, but for me personally it just didnt work.

And I am not someone to give up easily on a book!

*** out of 5.