The Engineer Wizard The Genie and the Wizard Series Book 1 eBook Glenn Michaels
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Paul Armstead is your average American senior citizen and electrical engineer. He’s 61 years old, unremarkably unattractive, and a self-proclaimed science-fiction nut. He’s lived the American dream in drab, typical fashion without a single noteworthy event in his rather mundane life.
So how does he end up fleeing from one end of the world to the other, dodging government dragnets, evil, nightmarish monsters known as the Oni, good wizards, bad wizards, beautiful women, spies, and wizardly spells?
Well, it is entirely the genie’s fault....
The Engineer Wizard The Genie and the Wizard Series Book 1 eBook Glenn Michaels
The header is a quote from Star Wars. 80% of the time, typing out movie quotes is annoying every time. That was a reference to Anchorman.Enjoy reading the review so far? Then you will love The Engineer Wizard. The main character spontaneously pops out pop culture references almost once per page, complete with a citation every time. Even when he's by himself. In the narration. Yes. Seriously.
If you manage to look past that, you can enjoy some painfully obvious wish fulfillment featuring an obnoxious author avatar. You can just sense the author's internal monologue of "I'm so nice and helpful to everybody and nobody appreciates me and someday somebody will give me superpowers because I'm such a nice guy and then I'll find a girlfriend and save the world!" It's like a Horatio Alger story except without the part featuring hard work and character building.
Basically everything about this story is terrible, but I would like to single out the world-building. Apparently the world is secretly controlled by wizards who are in constant cutthroat competition with each other. Despite that our Hero is able to immediately start running rings around the other wizards because Science. Apparently none of those wizards can be bothered to keep up with modern physics. The book tries to hand wave this with the idea that you're stuck with the conception of the universe you had when you grew up. This is dumb on its face but made especially so when "call up a superintelligent advisor" is apparently a spell you can casually make up on your first day of being a wizard that's nearly free to cast (side note: it's suggested in the text that these advisors are representatives of a superintelligent portion of the author avatar's brain, yet they have access to facts that he otherwise had no way of knowing). Of course, only Our Hero is able to figure it out, because reasons.
I tip my cap to the cover artist who convinced me to part with my money for this nothing burger of a story. You win this round, sir or madame. Next time I'll be on my guard.
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The Engineer Wizard The Genie and the Wizard Series Book 1 eBook Glenn Michaels Reviews
I was nervous when I saw all these negative reviews in fact I honestly had already downloaded another book to read when, not if but when, I got tired of this book. However that wasn't the case I truly enjoyed this story I mean sure some of the calculations and such were trivial and slowed the story down briefly but those points lead to a much deeper story. Besides you can always skip over the calculations which is honestly what I did and it didn't take away from the story. Long story short there is a reason this book still has a high rating even with all the recent reviews. Yea there is a crap ton of pulp fiction seemingly two quotes a chapter but I found it humorous and quickly began to enjoy it especially when it was a quote I knew.
Some say it's an old plot ala "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court" but it is going to regional take on the concept. Where I found it weak, and more than a bit tiresome. It was a case of too many episodes of the Hairbreath Harry, and villains that reminded my of the immortal Snidely Whiplash! I felt the need of a good editor to cut the story down to 12 chapters and get on with the war. I did read to the end, and the writers "voice" was very good. Are loved all the sci-fi quotes, and the characters that he conjured up to assist him.
So, bottom line I give it a weak recommendation and hope that the sequel is more compact.
Felt uneven. The first half of the book was painstakingly slow! The pace seemed off. I wanted to give up on it, but out of boredom I stuck with it. It isnt until *church* that the book finally picked up a bit and got interesting. Then it went back and forth on being interesting. The *chase* is where it finally stayed interesting for the most part and picked up steam. So many times I wanted to smack the idiotic MC for supposedly being an engineer, but possessing no thinking ability of his own sooooo many times in the book!! Unless the author loved lowing his intelligence for the sake of intro a new _ . He doesnt even try to think for someone who works as an engineer... The Female MC is a keeper! She saved the book, honestly. Brilliant narrator for the FMC! The SFX used annoyed more than added to a scene. They weren't done right.
All that said. Looking forward to the audiobook of book 2. Hopefully the author worked out the pacing and keeps our interest start to finish next time. I see the potential and love the blend of SCI/Fan.
First this is a fun book that I enjoyed.
The premise, not surprising given the title, is what if magic followed rules and you added an engineer to the mix.
I can see that some wouldn't like it, but any geek will get a chuckle out of the sparing for the esoteric king of geek banter. No it's not called that, but the author seemed to have a lot of fun with it. I now have a few new (to me) books and movies to check out because of the book.
If you look too hard for the failings you can find them, but that is true of all Sci-Fi. For instance how could Mr Spock even be? He has a father with copper based blood and a mother with iron based blood. Most overlook or don't care, yet it is a "real" issue for the purist.
The magic system is interesting, and kind of fun. It follows an interesting path.
Yes it isn't always consistent, but if you don't look under the hood too hard it can be fun.
Rules lawyers need not apply. I believe they will hate it.
If you can look at it and be okay that everything doesn't have to follow the precise laws of physics then you can have a lot of fun.
The header is a quote from Star Wars. 80% of the time, typing out movie quotes is annoying every time. That was a reference to Anchorman.
Enjoy reading the review so far? Then you will love The Engineer Wizard. The main character spontaneously pops out pop culture references almost once per page, complete with a citation every time. Even when he's by himself. In the narration. Yes. Seriously.
If you manage to look past that, you can enjoy some painfully obvious wish fulfillment featuring an obnoxious author avatar. You can just sense the author's internal monologue of "I'm so nice and helpful to everybody and nobody appreciates me and someday somebody will give me superpowers because I'm such a nice guy and then I'll find a girlfriend and save the world!" It's like a Horatio Alger story except without the part featuring hard work and character building.
Basically everything about this story is terrible, but I would like to single out the world-building. Apparently the world is secretly controlled by wizards who are in constant cutthroat competition with each other. Despite that our Hero is able to immediately start running rings around the other wizards because Science. Apparently none of those wizards can be bothered to keep up with modern physics. The book tries to hand wave this with the idea that you're stuck with the conception of the universe you had when you grew up. This is dumb on its face but made especially so when "call up a superintelligent advisor" is apparently a spell you can casually make up on your first day of being a wizard that's nearly free to cast (side note it's suggested in the text that these advisors are representatives of a superintelligent portion of the author avatar's brain, yet they have access to facts that he otherwise had no way of knowing). Of course, only Our Hero is able to figure it out, because reasons.
I tip my cap to the cover artist who convinced me to part with my money for this nothing burger of a story. You win this round, sir or madame. Next time I'll be on my guard.
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