Arm Farm Sarah Butland 9780981159218 Books
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"The text books discourage wild flights of imagination, but those in the field embrace them." Captivating and intriguing - from the title until we discover the identity of the unknown subject. Is an arm farm a place to grow arms, and is this about medical science and amputees and replacement surgery? Within five paragraphs we learn that it is not about growing arms and surgery, but a journey of both factual and person knowledge. Natalie walks through the field of forensics with the intent of discovering who did her parents wrong. Natalie is on her way to becoming s success but finds herself dwelling on her past. Will what happened to her so long ago ruin her chance at having her own life? Or will she overcome what has been happening to be able to let go of it? It's a long road for this young girl but she chose the path through the Arm Farm, just not with all the repercussions.
Arm Farm Sarah Butland 9780981159218 Books
Pretty good story. As a journalist, the portrayal of the reporters were a bit unrealistic but I was able to look past it.Nice job.
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Arm Farm Sarah Butland 9780981159218 Books Reviews
I was asked to read and review "Arm farm". With a title like that, I was intrigued. I really liked that the story was about a CSI college student. Usually the forensic/murder mystery books I read involve older, more experienced characters. I enjoy the TV shows based on the subject so it's interesting to read about. I really enjoyed the CSI convention plot. It brought a fun aspect to the profession. The storyline was something I'd never read before and it kept me guessing who Natalie's stalker was. While there was a lot of mystery to the story, most of the action didn't take place until the ending. The identity of Natalie's stalker came as a surprise but the ending wasn't the conclusion I was hoping for. I give "Arm Farm" 3/5 stars. It's an original story but it lacked the amount of action I was expecting.
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It feels as f the author could have fleshed out the book a bit more no pun intended. The writing feels stilted and doesn't really grab my attention. The story is good, intriguing even. I think if Sarah cleared it up a bit, it would be gripping and emotional. I just have a hard time believing that a 21-year-old student would have so many liberties with cases and how they're handled. Not to mention her extremely erratic responses to everything. Her parents are simply mentioned in an interview (still don't understand why she was being interviewed, but whatever), and she faints. Then she gets kidnapped and it's no biggie?! Arm Farm has such potential, but falls way short.
Sarah Butland's Arm Farm starts wonderfully with a young woman walking into a field of... arms. The touches of horror blend perfectly with reality as she contemplates why she's there--a perfectly natural explanation--and the chapter's intriguing, disturbing and fascinating all at once.
The story becomes a little more mundane as the top-of-her-class college student proceeds to get thoroughly drunk while celebrating success with her teacher. Characters make important decisions with surprising ease, belying the complex emotions of the first chapter and tending more towards a cozy mystery style of writing. A mystery in the past concerning the murder of the protagonist's family, bleeds into the present with a stalker whose thoughts are occasionally revealed. Red herrings are tossed into the mix then disappear, while odd remarks gradually become clear, giving a feeling that the characters have kept secrets from the author as well as the reader while the story progressed. The result is a slightly awkward cross between mystery and suspense. A few soaring scenes will stick in my mind despite occasional typos and unconvincing behavior. Meanwhile the Arm Farm of the title creates a well-written powerfully haunting wrapper to the tale.
Disclosure I received a free ecopy of this novel from the author in exchange for my honest review
She unlocked then opened the gate. Walking
inside she saw arms in the ground....Dead arms
sticking out of the ground. Each one in a various
stage of decay. Some with fingers or without hands.
The smell is overwhelming. The horror intense.
Natalie is in the Arm Farm.
Natalie is studying in the field of forensics. Her
parents were murdered so she choose this path
in life with the hope to find the killer.
Natalie is being stalked then she is kidnapped.
The story was an unique plot. The reader gets to
share the thoughts of both the stalker and the
stalked. A forensics mystery story is about to
unfold.
A gut wrenching ending.
I volunteered to read this eBook. My opinion is
my own.
Arm Farm by Sarah Butland
2.5*
After walking in from school to find her mothers lifeless body covered in blood and then being told her father had also been butchered in their family home, seven year old Natalie's life is set on a new course. She grows up with an interest in forensic science, not consciously with the aim of solving her parents still open murder, but more so she could help other victims and their families by getting answers. Natalie's natural skills were noticed by her professors and she was given the opportunity to attend an out of state forensic conference, this made headlines and soon after Natalie found herself as the victim of a stalker.
I wasn't very impressed with the cover art for this book. It wasn't eye catching, the colours are pale and the cartoon like drawing coupled with the strange title are quite misleading. I think to get this book noticed on the market it definitely needs a new front cover, one that will make it stand out from the crowd because when choosing a book buyers are initially attracted by the front cover.
The story is quite intriguing, I like the idea of it and think with quite a bit of work this could be a very good book. Punctuation and grammar are not an issue, there was nothing in those areas that jumped out at me as being a problem but the overall writing needs to be addressed.
1) The dialogue is contrived and not very realistic- There is quite a lot of dialogue in this book but none of it sounds natural, conversations aren't written in a way that you could `hear' the people saying them, it was as if the characters were reading from a script and they were very poor actors.
2) The sentences were stilted- There was no flow to the writing, it became frustrating to read because it was so unnatural and wooden. Some sentences were so stuffy and structured in such an odd way that I felt like I was reading something written in the 1800's!
3) Vocabulary - We are treated to some `big' words i.e. smorgasbord for one (surely `varied buffet' would have sufficed) yet the author made the very common error of writing `blood splatter analysis' instead of `blood spatter analysis' (which is one of my pet hate mistakes) yet it wasn't picked up by her pre-published readers or `editor?'
I don't want it to seem as if I am really down on this book because as I said earlier I found the idea very interesting, this is where a good editor comes in. As well correcting grammatical errors an editor picks out unrealistic areas of the plot and can reconstruct sentences to aid readability. A good edit and a new front cover would dramatically improve this books saleability and I think it is something the author should seriously consider.
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I had the privilege of reading an early draft of this young author's first adult fiction book. I found it a page turner.
Pretty good story. As a journalist, the portrayal of the reporters were a bit unrealistic but I was able to look past it.
Nice job.
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