Review: Where to begin this review? It's different!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 29, 2013
I have read all of Shane Brown's books and in the spirit of full disclosure, I got "Melt" as a copy from Shane himself to do early critique and review. If you liked the steady action of PLAZA and FAST with the monster fueled adrenalin, this book is a very different kind of read. This book will make you THINK! not the roller-coaster ride of his other novels. The 'monsters' in this book are humans and as you follow the book through to the end you may find yourself fearing and loathing them to a higher degree then the Alien like creatures in FAST or the the Jurassic Park type creatures in PLAZA.Without spoiling anything, the surviving characters at the end are likable and the whole book is rich in character development, more so then his earlier action novels (which had very good characterizations by themselves - you feel you really get to know these 7 people - the good and flaws and faults and all ).. The situation the characters are placed in, and the reasons for them being there in the first place brings reminders of Orwell's 1984, only the traps and tone of madness make it worse. Then again, developments coming out in today's news reports about government abuses around the world isn't good either.As I reached the end of this book I found myself thinking could this be a possible future for us? A 1950's author once said "A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government."~ Taylor Caldwell.So, all in all, a thinking person's book and a great addition to Mr. Brown's growing list of accomplishments.