The character is not simplified
594200
I spent 100 dollars on it which it is way too much. It was made in Taiwan, and the characters are not simplified which is really a problem for me. There are way too many functions that are not useful. There are way too many buttons that will confuse people. I suggest you buy casio or some other brands.
2489906
The hero is a relatively new character.  The character was slow in developing in the front of the book,  It was a good story.  My biggest problem was in comparison to Patrick OBrien or even Stockwin the sea battles or chases were capsulated or brief.  These are my favorite parts of sea novels.  The supporting characters are not strong.  Also the older woman who wants Tim will create a triangle in the future books (HOW VERY TIRED A PLOT).  On the other hand I like Tim, he will probably develop as a character nicely as he was beginning to at the end of the book.  The side characters will eventually come.  Because I like the story and the character, I will read the next book and probably the one after that if they avoid the stupid triangle plot and surround him will some interesting crew.
It is worth the read, but could become excellent.
4721905
The story arc is entertaining. Characters are actually pretty well developed. However, the jumpiness in the language and many mistakes are taking a lot away from this series. A few of the things that irked me the most are jumping between characters, locations and events every 3 sentences, wrong character's name being used out of the blue (Sasha->Petal) making you wonder if this was an example of the aforementioned jumpiness in the writing style and some unnatural flows. When something happens to a limited amount of characters where they acquire new information, characters that weren't present for it shouldn't have knowledge of the said information in the next paragraph and talk about it. Some of this "throwing code" at things is also a bit unimaginative.
113230
I love the character designs on this for the most part I think there's some characters that anyone can tell have some creativity in them and you can see the artist through them. But at the same time it seems as though a lot of the lesser or none main characters have a scrapped together feel.
Some characters seem flat as opposed to the three dimensional feel of some of the others in the comic and there's a big portion of this that just feels predictable and I don't feel a huge sense of a bigger picture in this yet.
I've loved your artwork for sometime now and I still can't wait to see how this story continues. Keep at this because I know it's gonna get even better.
3169877
For some reason, the kindle version of this books is missing all apostrophes and quotes.  So when you run into a paragraph where a character talks, you see something like this:

Im worried about all of us, he said.  Look at this!  He held up the tattered shoe and shook his head.  Its falling to pieces.

It should read:

"I'm worried about all of us," he said.  "Look at this!"  He held up the tattered shoe and shook his head.  "It's falling to pieces."

Somehow the conversion from the book text to the digital form got messed up.  I'd give the book 3 stars if it wasn't for this glaring error.  It's a bit difficult to read out loud to my daughter when I have to keep a keen eye out to know when a character is speaking and change my voice inflection.  The publisher needs to fix this.

Also, and I've found this in all the kindle versions of books from this series so far, there are missing spaces from time to time between words.  That's not as frequent, but still frustrating.

This series is rather cheesy, but it's supposed to be, it's for kids.  I read the whole series to my oldest two kids when they were younger, now reading to my youngest.  I just wish they had it formatted correctly for kindle.  I'm considering asking for my money back and checking it out from the library instead.
669854
This comic presents direct quotations from the original Shakespearean play, making it a rather authentic comic renewal. However, I felt the look of the comic itself was too scatterbrained. There are so many shots of character's mouths speaking to one another, and in general there are far too many frames per page. It was hard to understand who was speaking to who, when given only small fragments of the scene.
3143723
A rat is playing hide and seek, but cant find the other player named Wilbert. A friendly crocodile agrees to help the rat, but even though Wilbert may be super obvious to readers, for some reason the crocodile can never find him.

Ill be honest, upon first sight of the crocodile I told my husband that that illustration may be the most disturbing drawing of a crocodile Ive ever seen. I don't know if the art style is supposed to look like a child drew it (or possibly the artist is a child??) or if it is a style specific to the culture of the original publication locale of the Faroe Islands??? Regardless, the characters look odd and Im not a huge fan of the illustration style. The text reads a bit stilted and formulaic, which is fine if this is aimed at a beginning reader audience. The layout isn't typical for a beginning reader, though, and the illustrations are a bit drab in color scheme, so I cant see this being super popular with the target audience. The plot line is a bit odd too. I wasn't sure if Wilbert was supposed to be imaginary or if the crocodile is just humorously incredibly incompetent in finding? Perhaps the biggest selling point is that this was originally published in the Faroe Islands (which I had to look up because I'd never heard of them before) and provides a very unique origin for a translated book.

I received an ARC of this title from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
4913989
I was surprised that none of the character cut outs were included. Wish that had been noted in the description.
547524
Disappointed, they want you to buy characters that should be included automatically!!!!  You lost a client!!!!  Dont buy it just download the free app and you will get the same characters !!!
4047087
This book is very complicated to follow, with many characters. Each character has a nickname as well as a proper name, making it more confusing.
1170851
This was a good book, but frustrating.  I have read all the books and I don't like the author's continuous shift from the original main character, Justan, aka "Sir Edge".  Fist is a good character and I enjoyed reading about his exploits, but Justan is so much more appealing. Also, I foresee a problem with the many story lines the author has introduced.  Now we have three heroes to follow, Justan, Tarah, and now Fist.  The story is getting complicated.
4607266
Enjoyed this extension of the Card's Ender Universe in general but there is a basic conceptual problem here that the author can't get around.  Bean is supposed to be a mutant whose brain continues to grow with his body, making him smarter, but the character doesn't get smarter. It is easier to write genius kids who at four years old can out-think an adult than write a super genius. In many ways, Bean ideas seem simpler as his brains grow. I like the focus on romance and family, but...
4490633
Most of the alphabet is missing from the book. The letters that are included are not in order. The art is cute and my son enjoys it though.
1161572
Text almost illegible. Image looks like it was taken off of a 48x48 pixel master file.
4963586
Much has been written about Art Spiegelman's Maus, both as a graphic novel, comic book and Holocaust angle.  So, I won't repeat what others have said far better than me.

I'm not sure why Spiegelman chose to render his characters as animals.  Unlike many types of allegorical stories featuring animals, they usually stand for specific types of character types.  And indeed, the Germans are cats, the Poles pigs, and the Jews mice, but this device is not overly used.  We are not beat over the head with it.

It seems that the device was used by Spiegelman as a shield; a way to get at the very difficult topics he is handling.  Proof of this is the comic-within-a-comic, which he wrote earlier in his career, featuring human characters.  The Jewish mice do not comment of the change of species at all.  It is simply not important.

We are to understand this world as ours entirely.
2301587
My daughter loved this character from a book she got at the pre-school library (Ruby's Perfect Day) - and I ordered this book, as well as the other 2 in the series, and expected it to be the same book.  It is not.  The version the school library had was secular, and this version, as well as the other two in the series, had several additional pages added including references to G-d and bible verses.  Not happy, but my aunt gave them to her niece, so not a total loss.  Buyer beware, if you're looking for the secular versions, check the ISBN numbers to make sure you're getting the right copies.
1954723
I like this book, but the art was very crowded, making it difficult for me to tell what was going on. It was hard to discern which character was which, but I sorted it out eventually. This is a wonderful series--I just wish the art wasn't so complex.