(14 reviews)
$3.95
The Manipulator
by A Well-Traveled Man
Language: English
Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction » Adventure
Content Rating: Older than 17
Barrett Kendrick Thompson was the son of William Jr. and Meredith Thompson. William and Meredith were from wealthy families and lived off their trust funds. Madeline Thompson was the family matriarch with three children: Benjamin, Melanie, and her youngest, William Jr., named after her late husband, William. Benjamin and Melanie's children were all girls, and Madeline pressured Junior to have a child. She wanted a grandson and hoped Junior and Meredith could produce one.
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bansol415
Manipulator
Reviewed it on March 4, 2025
A good read overall. Some spelling mistakes and words repeated. Would improve with editing. It suffers from a lot of repetition which makes it tedious.david.dland
Great idea
Reviewed it on March 4, 2025
Written a lot like the "From Another Planet" story but still good. Waiting for next book in the series!maxloosli75
Unique writing style
Reviewed it on March 3, 2025
Like his previous book, this is written in a unique style. The author is casual about use of language, spelling, etc., but still writes an interesting story. I was not happy with how this ended ... just stopping dead, but if there's a Book 2, then that would help. Overall I enjoyed it ...msilversickle
editorial critique
Reviewed it on March 5, 2025
A very good story but ended totally inconclusively. Begs a follow-on. But the writing style is clumsy and repetitive, and riddled with mis-spellings, homonyms, grammatical errors and suspect punctuation. Whoever edited this work needs to go back to school to take remedial classes in English.xofdallas
Excellent concept, but to what point?
Reviewed it on March 4, 2025
The concepts and overall plot are engaging, and the protagonist is one that many (including me) can like and identify with, but the book suffers from three things. First, there is a lot of repetitiveness. A lot. Even the sex scenes are largely repetitive. My belief is a lot of the paragraphs are cut and pasted again and again, with small word changes to make them seem new. This gets old, and it detracts from the story a lot. Second, there are several places where the perspective and/or the tense shifts from second person to first person, or from present to past tense. This is a product of poor editing imho. And it's a bit jarring. And third, there does not seem to be a lot of discernible direction to the story. There's no real conclusion - the story just stops. In addition, while the protagonist gets stronger and more able throughout, and the contact with aliens gets a bit stronger and (only a bit) more meaningful over time, the question of "why" never seems to be addressed at all, nor even really hinted at. Don't get me wrong, I liked the concept - but the question of "what's the point" never gets addressed. It's kind of like a bridge to nowhere.toomanyputters
This could be a great story, but needs serious editing.
Reviewed it on March 21, 2025
I think the author has no experience in the real world. This reads like something written by a 12 year old boy. The constant 2 hours of extreme training and then practicing Chinese…. Dude train in Chinese. Nobody rents a cherry picker 7 or 8 times ( I am only on the 11th chapter) especially if they intend to continuously reverb cars. They only cost a few hundred bucks. Parts of this book are ok but then the president of the us asking a 14year old for advice on issues with national security and espionage. Jeez. I know we are to suspend belief, but holy cow. disappointed
Reviewed it on March 19, 2025
started out great, then repetitive.jwswaco
Full of copy and paste
Reviewed it on March 21, 2025
This book could have been good, but the author used too many repetitive copy and paste situations. No plot, no end game. Full of fluff and filler.