Elaine White's Life in Books
The Author
Elaine White is the author of multi-genre MM romance, celebrating 'love is love' and offering diversity in both genre and character within her stories.
Growing up in a small town and fighting cancer in her early teens taught her that life is short and dreams should be pursued. She lives vicariously through her independent, and often hellion characters, exploring all possibilities within the romantic universe.
The Winner of two Watty Awards – Collector's Dream (An Unpredictable Life) and Hidden Gem (Faithfully) – and an Honourable Mention in 2016's Rainbow Awards (A Royal Craving) Elaine is a self-professed geek, reading addict, and a romantic at heart.
The Reviewer
I’m an author and reader, who just can’t get away from books. I discovered the MM genre a few years ago and became addicted.
Top #50 UK reviewer on Goodreads
#1 reviewer on Divine Magazine
Brainwalker
Book – BrainwalkerAuthor – Robyn Mundell & Stephan Lacast
Star rating - ★★★★☆
Cover – Intriguing
POV – 1st person, one character POV
Would I read it again – Maybe
Genre – Young Adult, Adventure, Supernatural, Fantasy
** COPY RECEIVED THROUGH NETGALLEY **
While I think kids would love this, teenagers and middle-school kids especially, I did find it a little hard to follow in places. I'm not that knowledgeable about brains or neurons or what they do or where they are and how they work. And, though our MC is just learning all of this too, he's far more science minded than I am and I found myself getting a little lost in his erratic thoughts.
It was intriguing to follow Bernard through his normal life, then into the wormhole and into his dad's brain. There are some really nice illustrations to help us visualise things, and the creatures mentioned.
Mostly, I felt bad for Bernard, in his real life. No one really wanted him, listened or cared about him. That all began to make sense once he was inside his dad's head and, at the end, back out again. But I would have liked a little bit more to the ending. It felt a little abrupt.
There are some editing issues (missing quotation marks, missing words etc) but the story didn't have any plot holes and it was all nicely balanced between adventure, discovery and danger.
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Favourite Quote
“See? So for all you know your entire universe might be inside someone's head.” Basilides counters.
I smile. This Holon reminds me of an even crazier version of myself. If we were in Ms. Needleman's together, we'd rule the class. Too bad he lives inside Dad's brain.”
