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King Jeremy Paperback – January 20, 2010

by Kevin Johnson (Author)

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Kevin Johnson has lived most of his life all over the southern United States thanks to his military family. Currently, he lives in Tucson, Arizona.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; First Edition (January 20, 2010)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 286 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1449944698
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1449944698
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.66 x 8.5 inches

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L. Tam

A middle school English teacher wrote this? Seems unlikely.

Reviewed in the United States on December 10, 2011

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The two things I have to say about this book is first, this book really needs an editor, and second, there's no way this man teaches middle school English.

On the first point, there are grammatical errors, inconsistencies (is Jeremy 15 or 14? Quoted thoughts are enclosed with quotation marks at some times, and sometimes not), tense confusion, and a lot of missing spaces between words. The author is an English teacher, surely he knows to have someone edit a draft before submitting a final product? Someone who needs an editor this much should not self-publish if he doesn't have someone to do the editing for him.

On the second point, Jeremy's thoughts read more like an eight year old's than a 15 year old's. The thoughts are too juvenile even for a 12 year old, and so the author's bio (middle school English teacher) shocks me. Perhaps Jeremy's character has experienced mental and/or emotional regression because of his unstable/hostile home life, but I don't think that's where the author was going with this, especially given the book description. Also, oughtn't a teacher know you don't have recess in the 11th grade?

Admittedly, I only read one and some chapters, but the poor writing and lack of research/care to detail for this book has kept me from continuing. I understand this is really more a teen/young adult book, and so I would not be the primary audience, but even young people deserve to read a final draft, rather than a first draft. With some heavy editing, this could potentially be a decent book, so I don't have the heart to give it only one star. Also, I really appreciate that the protagonist is gay (greatly underrepresented), and the understanding that an unstable/hostile home life is greatly detrimental to education. My advice to the author would be to pull the book, get it edited, then republish it.

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Shar

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Reviewed in the United States on December 24, 2011

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As reviewer have said before, the book is in serious need of an editor. That, and a lot of research. I really struggled with myself in order to finish, and I'm still debating with myself as to whether that was a good way to spend my time.

I feel like there was an underlying subtext that there was something seriously mentally wrong with Jeremy. However, his disjointedness only matched that of the other characters. Even Pete started out with potential to be a strong character but resulted in being incredibly shallow. I really didn't like the actions of the characters and felt they were incredibly badly researched. I am still incredibly frustrated by many scenes in the book.

However, there is a lot that was covered in the nearly 290 pages of the novel. I willed myself to finish it because I couldn't just drop it. The concept was interesting to me, but the execution was just so poorly done! It had a few strong points, maybe a few bits of wit in the story. It just could have been done so much better. I'm very disappointed with the quality seeing as how much better this story really should have been.

Overall I do not think I would recommend this book to a friend, but the concept of the story is not something to merely discard.

Reviewed in the United States on December 11, 2011

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This book was Amazing. Normally I will read part of a book and go back later to read more. This book I read from start to finish because I just could not lay it down.

Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2012

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There was something very strange about this book that just seemed to rub me the wrong way. The "Mommy" and "Daddy" thing was both disturbing and annoying and I'm sure anyone who ever attended English class would be appalled by the terrible grammar. To be honest, it was almost a chore to read because I found myself having to really focus on what was actually happening and who was saying something.

Sometimes it seemed to me that the title character Jeremy must have had some kind of developmental or emotional disorder because his thoughts were often immature and a little weird. It seemed like he had the mind of a much younger child and the characters seemed shallow and barely worth reading about.

I gave this novel two stars because I felt that though it was pretty awful, it wasn't the worst thing I've ever read. It's no raving review but sadly that's how I feel. I'm incredibly confused because sometimes a line would jump out at me and I'd think "Wow, that was so well written" and it frustrated me knowing the author has the potential to do better. I'm not sure if this novel was some kind of weird commentary on mental illness, teen angst or what, but I didn't get the message. All in all, very strange and somehow off-putting.

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Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2014

I have no idea what's happening. There's inconsistencies in time all over the book. Pete and Jeremy go to Wendy's, eat, and go back to Pete's house and then all of a sudden they're trying to order ice cream. The parents find a condom and apparently Pete and Jeremy are having sex though the only thing we've read was kissing in the bathroom. Then all of a sudden it's the day after that although we've read about at least two days in between already. The characters are unbelievable, the dialogue doesn't ring true to any human being much less a 15 (16?) year old boy, time jumps around and the inner thoughts of this boy are jumbled and confusing and much younger than he's supposed to be. I honestly have no idea what the author was thinking when he published this. I only assume he suffered from some sort of head injury or dementia. Don't waste your time here. The whole book feels like torture.

Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2010

Its an amazing book, I just can't put it down. I've passed it along to several of my friends and they all loved it, they plan to buy their own copies of it too.

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