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3.75 AVERAGE
3.75 AVERAGE
The short of it is that Tabitha gets stung by an alien spider at the eve of an invasion of Earth. Once she wakes up she has mutated, and continues to mutate. Of course when she wakes up it is in a post apocalyptic world where aliens roam the lands.
It sounded quite good and the books poster picture seems to portray Tabitha as a bit of a bad-ass. Unfortunately she is nothing of the kind. At the beginning of the book Tabitha starts off her “human” life as a bit of a looser. Okay, she is about to mutate after all so I thought let’s see what happens…
Unfortunately Tabitha continues to be a bit of a looser. She rarely does anything herself except reacting to whatever gets thrown in her way. The plot progresses quite slowly. There are lot of detailed descriptions of the environment as well as Tabitha’s thoughts which would have been okay if the plot would actually have moved on a bit but it does not. Apart from being quite slow it actually becomes a bit repetitive. Tabitha experiences one bad encounter after another but they are all somewhat similar and, quite frankly, it got a bit boring after a while.
I would have expected Tabitha to evolve during her voyage and she does indeed develop a few new abilities but she never wakes up from he sleepy walk through the countryside. She never “grows up” and takes command. She is mostly hiding in her own miserable wallowing and the thought of actually doing something with her abilities never seems to occur to her except in senseless fits of emotional outbursts.
Another gripe I have with this book is that almost everyone she encounters are assholes in various degrees. I mean come on, they are really stupid, short sighted dickheads! It is like a mash-up of X-Files, The Walking Dead and I do not know what. It does not matter if it is aliens or humans or other hybrids. They are simply assholes with a few exceptions.
As a result the book felt way too long, quite boring at times as well as rather depressing. It was far from the strong mutant woman story that I hoped it would be. The book is quite well written but the story is not…well, not so good as far as I am concerned.
The ending? Well…meh!
Did Not Finish: 9% Complete
Between the cover art, the description and Iori's high rating (I've come to respect Iori's reviews when I spot them) I was quite confident that I would enjoy this book but unfortunately this book just really wasn't for me.
What I will say is that it was well written with good punctuation, grammar, spelling and descriptive language and has the potential to put chills up your spine. But the first few chapters I found incredibly dull and are probably one of the driving forces behind me giving up on this book, Tabitha comes across as something of an empty slate without much depth.
I may well revisit this book at some time in the future and try to give it another go as it might just be that I am not in the right mood for this story.
If you enjoy dark science fiction, future fiction or apocalypse fiction you may well enjoy it but be warned that the first few chapters are slow to the point of plodding.