Summary Of The Novel 'Hold' By Rachel Davidson Leigh

How does one certainly know if a book is good or not? It's simple, usually before finding a book one will look at the book's summary online or at the back of the book to find what the book is about. Also, not to mention, the critics or opinions of the book, that’s one-way one may find out if a book is a good read or not. In the novel "Hold", written by author Rachel Davidson Leigh is an exceptional book full of many meanings and themes of loss, relationship, and self-concept but from my perspective, it has some flaws that make the book too predictable. The book "Hold" in my opinion is a good read but I didn't have a liking for it because it is like every other fiction books out there. Therefore, I will share my opinion on the novel "hold" with three different explanations of what I like about it, what I don’t like about the novel and the overall reasons to why I have
I only read two-thirds of the book and, I only stopped because it got too boring and all the events in the book got predictable. At first, when reading the summary of the book, it was interesting how the character has a superpower and it made me want to read and know how he got his power of freezing time. I also think that the book sounds like every other movie or book out there just like for example the character founds out they have superpowers and shows off and uses their superpower to their advantages either good or bad. For these types of book to be interesting, all it needs is a sad background to the character, a superpower, and how they use their superpower. It sounds really similar to many movies and books we see, just like the many Marvel superheroes. Also, when reading the first half of the book on how he got his superpower, I made a prediction that he might discover his superpower through something obvious like getting mad that causes his discovery and it did. Even throughout the book, it just becomes more