Review: Couldn't finish it
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 10 1, 2013
Writing is overblown--this could be a reflection of the main character's, umm, character, but given the central conceit (introduced at the very beginning, so no real spoiler) that he's hiding in a closet, writing this down as he waits to die, it doesn't work.  While there were moments where the characters felt real, for the most part they and their dialogue didn't work for me.  No sense of suspense, no organic sense of flow, kept getting the feeling the author was trying to impress the reader with his wit--or just overly impressed with it himself.  This felt most evident with the gratuitous Hugh Howey/Wool mention, though I felt it pretty much throughout.Along with those problems (which are just my opinion), the numerous tense shifts, grammar errors, typos, and just plain over-wordiness (this is a separate issue from being overblown) were also distracting. I just couldn't get past the 50% mark--and I had to force myself to get that far.