Review for The Automation by BLA and GB Gabbler

The Automation by  Anonymous (Author) G. B. Gabbler (Editor) and B. L. A. (Narrator)  

Rate: 4 out of 5 stars

Series: The Circo Del Herrero, Book 1

Publication: SOBPublishing

Publication Date: July 7, 2014

Format: Mobi

Price: $0.99

Pages: 366

Amazon Link: Click Here

Rating on:

• Trigger Warnings & Disturbances: 6/10
• Erotic / Sexual content: 3/10
• Gore & Dismemberment: Nil

Books can be given identities to represent themselves, yet not every book stands apart as The Automation, a book with multiple faces. It can either be positive or negative and memorable or whack, yet it’s a read far from its traditional uniformity. While every author has a story to tell, written under a pseudonym, BLA and GB Gabbler has been a busy bee coming up with their dealings with Vulcan, also know as Hephaestus, the Greek God of fire and smithery.

Partaking as an unexpected guest in their story, BLA and GB Gabbler will take you in a humorously bizarre journey in The Circo Del Herrero Series. Evoking the mythpunk genre, you will leaf through these 336 pages as its characters engage in delinquent tomfoolery. Built up in 20 chapters, Gabbler explores the genres of Greek mythology, folklore fantasy, science fiction, and LGBTQ. 

Based on true events, according to Gabbler, this is the first volume of its series, which is a plot-driven, fast-paced, and has an amazing storytelling ability. You will experience at first-hand that Gabbler actively involves you in the story than let you be an eyewitness to the actions unfolding itself. The unique unfoldment in The Automation is that the storyline has a voice, and the narrator does an amazing job navigating you throughout the plot. Rather than acknowledge the storytelling ability, Gabbler has used a unique tool, the story-talking, which makes the plot express, question, and evoke emotions in you, causing a spellbinding attachment. This unusual style is a breath of fresh air compared to the traditional storytelling approach.

As a book of many words, Gabbler creates a self-aware state where you will explore every nook-and-cranny about each character, situation, and the ideology of the plotline. You may picture Gabbler, the mad scientist, as a typically broke, punk guy taking his readers on a joyride. But words of caution: The Automation addresses issues related to incest, hence, it’s not for sensitive readers.

The only point that stands as a drawback to this read is the careless presentation and content structure. The sudden pauses, lack of differentiation between the harmonious conflicts between BLA and GB Gabbler and the storyline, lack of page-break for each chapter, the parallel timelines between situations aren’t highlighted, the unusual stanzas aren’t given the proper recognition, such are the cases. These will make any reader find a mélange of misfit storylines align in a quirky manner. At times, you may feel the content rambling where you may stream through the pages, but it’s important to note the heavy contents are left on the footnotes, which is appreciable. You may find the summary pointers at the end of each chapter to quench your thirst. There are minor grammatical and punctuation issues, nothing much to cause the havoc in Gabbler's epic, biblical, Greek God infuse world. While BLA and GB Gabbler and Vulcan are working together to make their puppets, including us, miserable and comical at the same time, you may encounter surprising turn of events with a mind-blowing cliffhanger that will give you a clear impression of its full-fledged narrative mysticism. 

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As Vulcan flaunts at us, his puppets, thanks to BLA and GB Gabbler, that calculating Leeland has been hatching plans since day one. At the beginning of time, as I like to call it, Leeland has had the twins, but something untoward and disturbing took place that made them move away from him. As BLA and GB Gabbler's humorous conflict continues, Pepin fortuitously — though not so fortuitous — suicides bewildering his unexpected successor — though not so unexpected. When the vines of betrayal, secrecy, and lust for vengeance creeps within, BLA and GB Gabbler has had the last laugh while we, its readers, rubberneck in a befuddling context.