Booksneeze is a website that offers free books to blog-reviewers, in exchange for reviews. This is my first review that is complimentary of book sneeze, but I’m sure it won’t be my last. 🙂
I was able to receive a free copy of the book the noticer by andy andrews. I was pretty excited about this book. I am very interested in psychology, and am just an analyzer by nature. I thought this book might be something I could relate to, because I thought the old man just noticed things that other people looked past without realizing it. This was partly true.
The main idea of the book, is centered around this small town that is in many ways ‘just another town’ but in this town there is an old man, who is usually called Jones, who has been known around town for years. At one point in teh book, a man in his 50’s said that Jones was an old man when he was a child. This threw me off a little bit, as I thought this book was going to be a very realistic book, not ‘oh this man has always been old’ etc. But I was able to look past that easily.
Basically, Jones watches people and notices when they are struggling in life, sometimes it’s relationship or marriage problems, other times it’s young people who feel like their life is hopeless, various problems that most anyone could face at some point. Then Jones tricks the person or people into sitting down and talking to him, and he gives them advice on how to fix their problem. For the first few chapters, I really enjoyed the book. However, it got very predictable. In each chapter, there would be a new person with a problem, and Jones would showup, trick them into meeting with him, and he’d give them some advice (usually really basic stuff, too) and the very basic advice that he would give them would amaze the person and give them hope about their life and their ability to change things.
I think this book has a really great basic concept, I just wish it wasn’t such a predictable story in each chapter. Also, a few times I found myself chuckling a bit at the advice, because it was so basic, yet the person receiving the advice would be so thrilled at the advice and would say things like “I don’t know what I would have done if you didn’t come along and talk to me today Jones!” so it almost seemed a bit corny at points.
Disclaimer – I received a book free of charge for the purposes of this review. No other form of compensation was offered or accepted.
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Hi there! I am Emily Evert, the owner of Emily Reviews. I am 28 and live in a small town in Michigan with my boyfriend Ryan and our two pugs. I have a large family and I adore my nieces and nephews. I love reading memoirs, and learning about child development and psychology. I love watching The Game of Thrones, Teen Mom, Sister Wives and Veep. I like listening to Jason Isbell, John Prine, and other alt-country or Americana music. I created Emily Reviews as a creative outlet to share my life and the products that I love with others.
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