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art_books_chemistry's review
- weird self narration rambling chapters over analyzing and conspiracy-ish
- confusing how it jumps around, were we ever actually introduced to Larry? Like who he is, his storyline is very random too.
- creepy this is a foreign virus taking over and people are going crazy and have masks and shit and this was released in 2019.... still sci-fi so not totally covid because it's clearly alien of some variety but still creepy. (Not a reason for stopping but wasn't helping either.)
- confusing how it jumps around, were we ever actually introduced to Larry? Like who he is, his storyline is very random too.
- creepy this is a foreign virus taking over and people are going crazy and have masks and shit and this was released in 2019.... still sci-fi so not totally covid because it's clearly alien of some variety but still creepy. (Not a reason for stopping but wasn't helping either.)
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Graphic: Violence
schyzm's review
1.0
Terrible. DNF at 15%. Overly vulgar with no payoff, poorly written and the narration by Waters was so uselessly unprofessional that it actively detracted from the already utterly incomprehensible stupid plotting.
If you value your brain cells, give this a hard pass.
1) the books is marked as "mature themes," however when that means constantly dropping F-bombs and talking about porn, it just comes off as being manically juvenile.
2) speaking of porn - inside the first hour of the book, a character is killed by being mind controlled into masturbating too hard. Seriously.
3) All of it's wrapped up in the trappings of a manic conspiracy theory plot that is neither original nor interesting.
4) I will never, ever, be ok with a book where a parent breaks their middle school child's neck. ever.
5) Waters' narration is both manic (too fast) and BAD - there is no character differentiation and the only thing he didn't do wrong is mispronounce words.
in short: don't buy it. don't bother. don't waste your time, It's trash.
If you value your brain cells, give this a hard pass.
Spoiler
1) the books is marked as "mature themes," however when that means constantly dropping F-bombs and talking about porn, it just comes off as being manically juvenile.
2) speaking of porn - inside the first hour of the book, a character is killed by being mind controlled into masturbating too hard. Seriously.
3) All of it's wrapped up in the trappings of a manic conspiracy theory plot that is neither original nor interesting.
4) I will never, ever, be ok with a book where a parent breaks their middle school child's neck. ever.
5) Waters' narration is both manic (too fast) and BAD - there is no character differentiation and the only thing he didn't do wrong is mispronounce words.
in short: don't buy it. don't bother. don't waste your time, It's trash.
frugephoto's review
3.0
A mix somewhere between They Live and Visitors, this story had a great concept with plenty of potential. I found the ideas to be extremely intriguing but it felt like something of a rough draft. I didn't really have a chance to attach to characters before there were certain changes.
The narrator was a major issue for me. I enjoyed the sound of his voice but I didn't feel any attachments to the story or emotional investment in his voice. Some phrases were clearly emoted wrong and there was no bother in fixing it.
Overall this book was decent, but it did not live up to it's potential.
The narrator was a major issue for me. I enjoyed the sound of his voice but I didn't feel any attachments to the story or emotional investment in his voice. Some phrases were clearly emoted wrong and there was no bother in fixing it.
Overall this book was decent, but it did not live up to it's potential.
kagedbooks's review
3.0
I feel like I should have liked this more, the premises was good but the genre and character hopping was jarring at times and not easy to keep up with. I may revisit someday and see how I feel about it on the reread.
johhnnyinla's review against another edition
2.0
Junk is written by Hulu's Shut Eye: Series Creator Les Bohem, an Emmy-winning screenwriter’s epic story of an alien takeover of Planet Earth, set in present-day Los Angeles. With pedigree like that, I was expecting something brilliant and biting. Instead, what I got was, well, junk.
With every chapter that passes, I found myself screaming (internally), "show me the aliens!" Only to find out just past midway in the book that humans were the aliens (well most humans). And as if the the story isn't convoluted enough, the author decided to throw in witches, warlocks, conspiracy theorists, a gum-shoe detective, a schizophrenic female messiah, zombie-ish transformations of humans to aliens, magical objects delving into the fantasy realm, gangsters, bar fights, sex and violence, and more. With all that, the book is definitely aptly named.
With every chapter that passes, I found myself screaming (internally), "show me the aliens!" Only to find out just past midway in the book that humans were the aliens (well most humans). And as if the the story isn't convoluted enough, the author decided to throw in witches, warlocks, conspiracy theorists, a gum-shoe detective, a schizophrenic female messiah, zombie-ish transformations of humans to aliens, magical objects delving into the fantasy realm, gangsters, bar fights, sex and violence, and more. With all that, the book is definitely aptly named.
kimberlynann's review against another edition
3.0
I went into this story totally blind - I had selected it over a year ago and knew it was some sort of sci fi something. I had no idea it was set in "present day LA" amidst the beginning of a worldwide pandemic and then a revolution.
Certainly not the escapism I was looking for... But it was a bit cathartic seeing the turns for the worst. Never something I would have chosen to listen to right now, but it was an engaging story.
Certainly not the escapism I was looking for... But it was a bit cathartic seeing the turns for the worst. Never something I would have chosen to listen to right now, but it was an engaging story.
theaudioauditor's review
1.0
Audio book review.
DNF.
Second time trying to get through this book, and I think it's a combination of narrator and story that I'm just not connecting with. Narrator doesn't vary the voices enough, so switching between characters is difficult to pick up. And characters and settings are still being introduced at Chapter 19, which was where I stopped. I realized I had zero clue what was even going on. I had lost the tenuous thread of a plot from the beginning. Just not the book for me.
DNF.
Second time trying to get through this book, and I think it's a combination of narrator and story that I'm just not connecting with. Narrator doesn't vary the voices enough, so switching between characters is difficult to pick up. And characters and settings are still being introduced at Chapter 19, which was where I stopped. I realized I had zero clue what was even going on. I had lost the tenuous thread of a plot from the beginning. Just not the book for me.
jeepin's review
3.0
It was so trippy to read this book while the corona virus has been hitting Seattle. So many parallel themes - aside from the aliens aspect!