Review: An intriguing world that needs to be more fleshed out
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 21, 2014
This review is courtesy of topoftheheapreviews(dot)comThe premise behind Homeless is pretty intriguing and it sounds like a great setup for some terrifying interactions.  These creatures nest inside in dark places and kill anyone they come into contact with, so the people have been pushed out doors, being forced to deal with the elements and each other with no place to hide.Each person sort of has their station in life, the wall-bangers are able to go and crack open a building, erraditcating the creatures so that they are safe to be looted for supplies.  The shadow runners go in and are incredibly fast able to out-maneuver the creatures.  This book centers around a wall-banger  and a shadow-runner.The premise like I said was one of originality and is what drew me into wanting to read this tale.  The problem is that the book is really too short.  It’s not that I was left wanting more at the end as far as the story goes, but I wanted more explanation and detail in the world.  I wanted to know more about the creatures and I wanted to know what happened before the creatures came, why they were there, etc.There is so much that could have been capitalized on in this, that I felt that there was too much missing to make this an engaging read.One of my biggest complaints is the dialogue.  It seemed that all of America (or, this little slice of it anyway) seemed to regress into language of the 1800′s old west.  It was hard to grasp there.  Also the whole thing about the tents were only sort of explained.  They have to be taken down and set back up so that the creatures can’t find a place to nest during the day, but what happens during the night?  Do they just not come out and hunt when it’s night time and there is no sunlight?The characters themselves weren’t that bad, and the action in the book was well described and you could easily feel the tension surrounding the characters, so that is what really propelled me forward in finishing this.It’s only 147 pages, so it needed something for the reader to grasp.  The characters did that.The Bottom Line:  Until the world gets fleshed out some more, I can’t really recommend the book.  It’s just not as fleshed out as it needs to be and I feel the reader is missing a lot of what makes the world so horrific.  It’s not poorly written, but there is so much more that could have happened here.  I may be plagued with the fact that I wanted more, or expected something different than what I got, but the world for this one is a tough sell for me.