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lgmosher
Jun 05, 2020lgmosher rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
I can say in absolute certainty that the one thing I DONT like about this book is the layout. The paragraphs are thick, when they could be broken up to give a smoother flow. The chapter breaks start at the very top of the page, making it feel like there is no break. If there was some white space left behind the book would look and feel cleaner to the reader. Despite the layout, I ended up in love with this book. I wouldn't say that the beginning was slow going, because that would be an incorrect statement.... Yet it was quite, compelling either. I didn't open the book and after the first two or three chapters want to eat through it. If I had to pick a word for the beginning of this book it would be... Alluring... The way that the story is told is something different. Its not written in the normal forms. How we follow along with the characters through what is happening right then in real time. No, this book was written as Gideon retelling the events that transpired. You go in and out from Gideon's real time to his story mode. Okay, correction... I didn't fall in love with Riders specifically. More like I fell in love with Gideon. For the very start I was like "okay, I can hang with this hot head". By the end of the book I was feeling the same things he was. It was like what he was retelling had happened to me and I was right there, in his head, helping him relay all of the information... and feeling everything that was chasing him down. It was by far one of the coolest books I have ever read. I thought the topic was going to be "Apocalyptic" with the four horsemen and that it was going to be a lot of screaming and ITS THE END OF THE WORLD garbage. But it wasn't! and truly I think that is what kept me reading. It is what drew me in even more... Honestly, no. Lets face it... it was the fact that I now have an unhealthy attachment to Gideon. If you haven't picked up riders because you didn't want another apocalyptic book... then you should push that from your mind and pick up this book. You wont be disappointed (though you might come away heartbroken and with some strange attachments to fictional characters). I could read it over and over again and never become bored. I would fall in love with Gideon all over, every. single. time.