 Alright, so today we have another Patreon request because even though I literally just doubled the price of it I had like 12 people all requested at the same time, so oh Man, it's gonna be a bit difficult to get there, but this one is called One for the Road by Jeremy M. Moore and While it's more of a novella than a real full-length book it is It does a pretty good job at what it sets out to do This is the introduction song. It's not very good, but it's not too long. Like I said, this is not a very long story I got through it in about in two hours, actually a little bit less than two hours, I think, spread out over two days and It feels like a short film in a lot of ways Like it's basically just focused on this one character in this one location and it focuses on him going over a couple of Relatively simple ideas and themes. In fact, I'd go so far as to say they're very simple ideas and themes Basically, this guy named Miguel has died Like he wakes up in the desert and he has no idea where he is or what's going on Then he goes into this house nearby and there's like, yeah, you're you're dead, man this is the afterlife and he at first does not know how to deal with that because he's like, oh, man how's my how's my wife gonna live without me what what's gonna happen next and Pretty much the whole rest of the story is just him one exploring the afterlife and seeing what it's like and to Figuring out how he can move on how he can decide. Okay, you know what? I miss being alive, but this is just what happens and this is where I'm at now So let's see how I can enjoy that the character of Miguel is, you know, pretty simple because while I do feel for him and I do sympathize with his Wanting to come back to life and I do understand why he'd be a bit freaked out to be in the situation. I It never comes across all that strongly. He's more of a Vessel through which these ideas are explored and by ideas and themes I mean like okay, this is what the afterlife might be like But also like this is how you can move on not only from dying and understanding that your old life is over but also just from pretty much any tragedy or anything that forces you to change your lifestyle like I think From that perspective it is kind of interesting but you would really need like an entire full-length book to go into a lot of detail about that and like I said, this is Novela, this is short-length, but honestly it probably should have been shorter because what I noticed from Literally the first page is that there is a lot of description like a lot a lot a lot a lot of description given about everything and while that's not inherently bad on its own the fact that Everything in the book is described that way is Not great. That's in fact. It's bad Because you see one you always want to trim fat and stuff like this You don't want to go on and on about stuff that isn't important Because that'll bore your audience and more and more people will leave over time And so usually when you're writing at least in novels at least The more detail you give something you're telling your audience. Okay. This is important Let's focus on this and if you just breeze over something and it's not that important then Well, yeah, they know it's not that important like for example if someone says I walked outside I saw a man. I said, excuse me. Which way is Blank the man said, oh, it's over that way. I went that way like you can do that because It really doesn't matter what the man looked like or how he said what he said Or even specific directions to the place you're trying to go None of that is important. So you don't need to focus on it. Whereas if the man Uh, I don't know if he got somehow swept up in the adventure with the main character Then it would probably do to Give some description on what he looks like give some description on how he acts make him act a little bit unusual maybe and This book one for the road really doesn't do that like everyone feels equally important Even though from a storytelling standpoint, they're really not and By putting so much emphasis on everything Nothing is really that important then really there's only a few bits that you needed to focus on that much in here and Well, like I said at the beginning this feels kind of like a short film And it should have felt more like a short film because that's exactly what uh At least I think that's what it was going for and by just breezing over some of that stuff it It would have helped it go by faster and it would have allowed me to focus more on the Dreamlike quality of the afterlife and focus more on like michel individually as opposed to his surroundings So overall while I am not really the biggest fan of the this type of I don't know if genre is really the word for it But it's clearly trying to be a little more dreamlike and trippy and unusual than most of the stuff I read and Yeah, I wouldn't normally Go out and grab this I wouldn't say oh that sounds interesting But that said I think it succeeds very well at what it's trying to do You know what it's trying to do doesn't appeal all that much to me personally But it succeeds extremely well So if you are someone who's looking for something shorter something a little cozier, which has some Need ideas and themes in there, but really nothing that you have to think that hard about Then I I guess check this one out You know if if it's a waste of your time at least it's not a giant waste of your time A special thanks to everyone who watched this far and an even Special or thanks to all of my patrons including the ten dollar and up guys Aposavalanan, Olivia Rayan, Ava Tumor, Brandon S. 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