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3.09 AVERAGE
3.09 AVERAGE
kempfme's review
5.0
This book is very imaginative. I loved the fact that it was creatively descriptive. It was a unique idea with all the different worlds and creatures.
ian's review
3.0
This book sucked me in very quickly. Right off the bat strange things start to happen, when Quentin gets seemingly teleported right out of the sanitarium. He quickly learns that he was injured in the car crash that killed his friend, a friend that died when his organs filled with sand. Quentin dives right into the investigation, first talking to the witness of the fatal car crash, stripper Holly.
Holly knows more than she is letting on, but Quentin is too far in to care. There are some really cool things going on in this sci-fi version of Las Vegas, like sunglasses that open locks, fire worms, magical rings, a mysterious shadowy figure that runs one of the local casinos, and rips in space-time that suck up unsuspecting travelers.
However, the story runs out of steam about halfway through. That, combined with some confusion and inconsistencies in the narrative make it harder to enjoy. At one point the detective tells Quentin he knows that Quentin has amnesia without Quentin telling him, but later is surprised by that same fact and confusion about the location of a couple of the power objects at several points in the narrative - the photo and the finger – left me frustrated.
I had a hard time caring about any of the characters, I think because none of them ever managed to break out of their character tropes in any way, leaving them hollow. The Cop is corrupt. The amnesiac never remembers anything more about his life. The jilted bride is angry and vengeful, and the stripper is has a heart of gold. A major character dies about 3/4 of the way through and I didn’t even bat an eye.
The ending delivers a good climax, and clears up a lot of the unanswered questions. But I had to skim quite a few uninteresting chapters to get there
Holly knows more than she is letting on, but Quentin is too far in to care. There are some really cool things going on in this sci-fi version of Las Vegas, like sunglasses that open locks, fire worms, magical rings, a mysterious shadowy figure that runs one of the local casinos, and rips in space-time that suck up unsuspecting travelers.
However, the story runs out of steam about halfway through. That, combined with some confusion and inconsistencies in the narrative make it harder to enjoy. At one point the detective tells Quentin he knows that Quentin has amnesia without Quentin telling him, but later is surprised by that same fact and confusion about the location of a couple of the power objects at several points in the narrative - the photo and the finger – left me frustrated.
I had a hard time caring about any of the characters, I think because none of them ever managed to break out of their character tropes in any way, leaving them hollow. The Cop is corrupt. The amnesiac never remembers anything more about his life. The jilted bride is angry and vengeful, and the stripper is has a heart of gold. A major character dies about 3/4 of the way through and I didn’t even bat an eye.
The ending delivers a good climax, and clears up a lot of the unanswered questions. But I had to skim quite a few uninteresting chapters to get there