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whatmeworry's review against another edition
3.0
This is a fun enough read, I polished it off in a day and it kept me interested throughout. Wright throws together a Source Code/Groundhog Day style mechanic with a Night of the Living Dead style virus and sets in on a Cruise Ship. There is definitely enough here to keep the reader gripped but it ends a bit weakly and the horror never shocks or terrifies.
Entertaining enough but derivative and ultimately unsatisfying.
Entertaining enough but derivative and ultimately unsatisfying.
amia's review
5.0
I received this book at no charge because Mr. Wright is wonderful and I am very lucky.
I thoroughly enjoyed Sea Sick. I never give book reports on books I read, only how I feel about the book. There seem to be hundreds of zombie/apocalypse books to choose from in the past few years (thank you Walking dead) but Sea Sick has a very unique approach and even though it could have gotten boring at one point Mr Wright handled the situation in a clever and non-boring way. I do hope that if you like to be slightly afraid to turn the page and also dying to know what happens next then go buy this book.
I thoroughly enjoyed Sea Sick. I never give book reports on books I read, only how I feel about the book. There seem to be hundreds of zombie/apocalypse books to choose from in the past few years (thank you Walking dead) but Sea Sick has a very unique approach and even though it could have gotten boring at one point Mr Wright handled the situation in a clever and non-boring way. I do hope that if you like to be slightly afraid to turn the page and also dying to know what happens next then go buy this book.
ogrezed's review
4.0
The story mixes the genre of zombie apocalypse with the movie Groundhog Day. Since I enjoy both of those, I enjoyed the book. However, I had just read a similar mash-up as a short story: Just One Day, by Jacob Prytherch. I think I would have enjoyed this book more if I had read it first.
catsy2022's review
adventurous
dark
tense
medium-paced
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Rating: A-
Sea Sick is the first book in a trilogy by Iain Rob Wright. This starts off as a spooky thriller set on a cruise ship that gets beset by zombies but turns into a crazy fight against time that could determine the fate of humanity.
I was throughly wrapt by this book, I really liked Jack as a protagonist and the slow reveal of everyone's demons and their motivations. The diversity of the main characters was something that I was surprised by, I loved the mysterious magical elements and the tenseness that grows through the book.
The author didn't hesitate in introducing some truly heinous elements to show how desperate someone can get after 250 days on a boat repeating the same day. I really enjoyed the sections where Jack spent weeks at a time getting plastered and then realising that he does, in fact, age.
I did feel like the reveal of the villain's motivations were a bit shallow overall compared to the scope of the story but that ending gripped me with anxiety.
This was a great introduction to a horror trilogy and a refreshing, quick read.
Sea Sick is the first book in a trilogy by Iain Rob Wright. This starts off as a spooky thriller set on a cruise ship that gets beset by zombies but turns into a crazy fight against time that could determine the fate of humanity.
I was throughly wrapt by this book, I really liked Jack as a protagonist and the slow reveal of everyone's demons and their motivations. The diversity of the main characters was something that I was surprised by, I loved the mysterious magical elements and the tenseness that grows through the book.
The author didn't hesitate in introducing some truly heinous elements to show how desperate someone can get after 250 days on a boat repeating the same day. I really enjoyed the sections where Jack spent weeks at a time getting plastered and then realising that he does, in fact, age.
I did feel like the reveal of the villain's motivations were a bit shallow overall compared to the scope of the story but that ending gripped me with anxiety.
This was a great introduction to a horror trilogy and a refreshing, quick read.
lilyn_g's review
3.0
If you can instantly tell how an infection spread, within the first 10 percent of a novel, is it worth going on? Are your expectations too high? I mean, it is a zombie novel and few of them actually deal with how the infection spreads as any significant part of the story. So, I shrugged off my doubts and kept reading. At best, I’d be surprised, at worst….well, I’ve read a lot of so-so novels lately, what’s one more, right?
Sea Sick is, at 218 pages, the epitome of a quick and mindless read. A peculiar mix of basic zombie movie (though the zombies actually have little ‘screen time’), murder mystery, and Groundhog Day (albeit with a complete lack of obnoxiously semi-funny characters), it offers a few unexpected twists but unfortunately strikes too many points of predictability with both happenings and cardboard cut-out characters.
I did appreciate that the author took pains to try to keep things at least semi-realistic (as much as one can with the Groundhog Day plot), and provided natural limitations and consequences to the locations and actions that happen. That was pleasantly surprising. However, it doesn’t quite make up for the severe bog down of non-happenings in the middle of the read. Honestly, it’s already a small number of pages. Cutting twenty or so out of the middle would not have made reading time that much less and probably would have significantly strengthened the story. Then there’s the epilogue. C’mon, can we just stop with epilogues? Just stop. The story wasn’t bad, but it could have ended well enough without the epilogue. It took me from “eh, predictable but okay” to eye-rolling “Oh yay, look, how original” levels of inner snark.
Overall, Sea Sick isn’t bad and I can actually see myself picking up more of Iain Rob Wright’s books, but this story seems like it was pounded out for the sake of getting out a story rather than having any true drive or substance to it. Mind you, I don’t ask for much from my zombie novels, as they are my guilty pleasure, but I need just a touch more than what was delivered in Sea Sick.
Sea Sick is, at 218 pages, the epitome of a quick and mindless read. A peculiar mix of basic zombie movie (though the zombies actually have little ‘screen time’), murder mystery, and Groundhog Day (albeit with a complete lack of obnoxiously semi-funny characters), it offers a few unexpected twists but unfortunately strikes too many points of predictability with both happenings and cardboard cut-out characters.
I did appreciate that the author took pains to try to keep things at least semi-realistic (as much as one can with the Groundhog Day plot), and provided natural limitations and consequences to the locations and actions that happen. That was pleasantly surprising. However, it doesn’t quite make up for the severe bog down of non-happenings in the middle of the read. Honestly, it’s already a small number of pages. Cutting twenty or so out of the middle would not have made reading time that much less and probably would have significantly strengthened the story. Then there’s the epilogue. C’mon, can we just stop with epilogues? Just stop. The story wasn’t bad, but it could have ended well enough without the epilogue. It took me from “eh, predictable but okay” to eye-rolling “Oh yay, look, how original” levels of inner snark.
Overall, Sea Sick isn’t bad and I can actually see myself picking up more of Iain Rob Wright’s books, but this story seems like it was pounded out for the sake of getting out a story rather than having any true drive or substance to it. Mind you, I don’t ask for much from my zombie novels, as they are my guilty pleasure, but I need just a touch more than what was delivered in Sea Sick.
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