Review: terrific fun
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 17, 2013
I loved this book. It was exciting, suspenseful and genuinely chilling. At first, I wasn't so sure. There were a few techie details that seemed awkward when spoken by the characters. Then the prose got giddy on occasion, reduced to single line phrases and rhythmic hysteria. But you know what? This guy knows what he's doing. The whole effect of these unorthodox techniques works so well with this breathless fiction, and who cares that the twist at the end is so-so. The evocation of dread, the survival horror, the dirty irony - it all works wonderfully. Will certainly read more by McBride.