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Wall Street West (Book) Review

 
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1/ 5


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We liked?


A timely story about political corruption and one man who aims to stand for the city.

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It's just very badly written. Bad form, bad editing, and completely irrational story twists abound.


Final Fiendish Findings?

Overall, Wall Street West is just not a book I can recommend. Between the completely confusing presentation to the oddly developed story line to the rampant editing mistakes, it’s just plain difficult to read. It’s an intriguing idea for a book, but it’s not done well enough to make it worth reading.

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Posted March 12, 2014 by

 
Full Fiendish Findings...
 
 

Wall Street West tells the story of a young man determined to change his city for the better. Out with corruption, bribery, and the every man for himself mind set that seems to be so prevalent with politics today, and in with charitable acts, giving back, and working for the people. Harper was a successful equities trader when the Twin Towers fell, but his strong morals led him to give up that life and volunteer to serve his country. After time spent in the war on terror, he’s back stateside and determined to run a clean campaign for mayor – but the corrupt man who has held that position for decades isn’t about to give up without a fight. And once Harper does fulfill his dreams of becoming mayor, he’ll have an entire system filled with corruption fighting his every reform.

Now, all of that sounds pretty darn interesting. It’s an intriguing plot, well suited to our current times of rampant political corruption and greed. We all want a man like Harper in our corner – he’s immune to greed and committed to the people. The problem is, while you’ll get that story from the back of the book quite easily, you really have to work to get any of it out of the book itself. It is work to read, and really quite hard to figure out.

A big part of the problem with Wall Street West is how the story is presented. It is nearly all presented as spoken text, which really makes it hard to follow. You have one guy talking, then the next, then back again without any sort of meaningful narration that tells you what is going on. Sometimes that is presented as part of the conversation, but it often comes off as stilted, and some good old fashioned scene setting would have gone a lot farther in getting readers engaged rather than confused. There are a number of characters that join in the conversation here and there, never to be heard from again, while others are developed for a while and then simply dropped. On top of that, there are a number of editing mistakes throughout the book that also distract from the overall story, which itself veers off into sheer confusion near the end with an odd story twist that seems added in simply to keep the story going. Drones? Really?

Overall, Wall Street West is just not a book I can recommend. Between the completely confusing presentation to the oddly developed story line to the rampant editing mistakes, it’s just plain difficult to read. It’s an intriguing idea for a book, but it’s not done well enough to make it worth reading.


Amy

 
U.S. Senior Editor & Deputy EIC, @averyzoe on Twitter, mother of 5, gamer, reader, wife to @macanthony, and all-around bad-ass (no, not really)


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