Silence of six, a book written my E.C. Myers, discusses the adventures, or rather the misadventures of max, a high school soccer player who dabbles in hacking. This book has almost no background information, or character build-up. Although it is easy to figure out exactly what is happening, it can be difficult to understand why the things that happen are happening, in the beginning. I thought this book was a good read, and it was also a quick read, seeing as how I am an unusually slow reader, and it took me about 5 days to get through this three-hundred fifty-page book. Myers uses a lot of rather vivid imagery, while it is not quite as vivid as Stephan …show more content…
I personally felt that this book was exactly on my “reading level” seeing as how there were few words that I had to look up, but it was still able to challenge my vocabulary. This book was an easy read, because of its word choice, however, when you compare this books word choice to Stephen Kings Cujo. The word choice could be considered childish, because King chooses to use a wide, and advanced vocabulary, while Myers uses a more simple, easy to read …show more content…
In the silence of six we see this being implemented. Myers jumps right into the story, however he does give clues and hints along the way, allowing the reader to sort of connect the dots and somewhat understand who is doing what, and why. Personally I felt more hooked into the story with it skipping the character background, because it forced me to continue reading to figure out, just exactly what was going, what characters were doing, and why. So by not sitting and explain who every character is, what their background is, and what their thought process was Myers is able to pull readers in, and force them to do the work in figuring out who everyone is while also forcing them to figure out what was going