Review: a fun read, despite the gore
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 8, 2014
Yeah, kind of far-fetched and even a little corny in spots. But hey, it's a thriller, so that's to be expected. The first few chapters are slow going, but it gets absorbing at about the 33% mark and from roughly 75% it's a wild ride. There's a moment at 81% that approaches literary perfection: "Where did <i>that</i> come from?"Characters are categoric. There's the one who stretches and grows while confronting the danger, the ones who just manage to survive, the ones who survive due to muscle and prep, the one who survives with flair, and the ones you just know are going down (and do, very satisfactorily). The plot has more kinks and turns than an oxbow-forming river; the author spent hours sorting through the timeline and correlating events. Little moments that seemed trivial mattered in the end, and while I could have lived without some of the gore, again, that's part of the genre. We'll call it a solid four stars.