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3.85 AVERAGE
3.85 AVERAGE
For the first quarter of this book I wanted nothing more than for the entire cast to be eaten as quickly as possible. Once the apes show up it got good.
adventurous
dark
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Not really my kind of book is what I find when I originally saw this come out. I was very wrong. This book was entertaining from start to finish. I highly recommend it. I didn’t see it as a horror book. Sure there is death and gore but that’s wasn’t the central story. Maybe like The Martian but with enemies. I don’t know but it was good.
adventurous
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
My gawd, was this good! Creative, unique, exciting, scary, and just a perfect read.
Max Brooks wrote World War Z too, which was great. Definitely recommend?
Max Brooks wrote World War Z too, which was great. Definitely recommend?
Huh! This is a fun book, in a gory, horrifying, survival kinda way. I said WHOA out loud a couple times. It’s no work of great literature, but it’s entertaining. It’s prime horror movie content. I don’t regret reading it, even though it didn’t really meet my expectations. There were a couple characters I wish we’d learned more about, but I enjoyed getting to know the folks the novel did take the time to focus on.
adventurous
dark
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
A book about surviving a Sasquatch attack by the author of Zombie Survival Guide/WWZ... was this book written specifically for me?
It's just too bad that it's bad.
I would say I'm a Max Brooks fan. I really enjoyed his zombie works and whenever he pops up on a podcast or something I try to catch it. He's a bit visionary, with his big imagination and pragmatism. I'm not the only one who sees this, as his Z-fic scored him a military scholarly fellowship of some kind and probably at seat at a think tank or two.
But he must have got carried away here and he doesn't quite pull off this story. There's some cool setup and genuinely scary stuff (to me), but the characters are weak, they behave stupidly, and the documentary-like structure isn't as effective as it was in WWZ.
It's just too bad that it's bad.
I would say I'm a Max Brooks fan. I really enjoyed his zombie works and whenever he pops up on a podcast or something I try to catch it. He's a bit visionary, with his big imagination and pragmatism. I'm not the only one who sees this, as his Z-fic scored him a military scholarly fellowship of some kind and probably at seat at a think tank or two.
But he must have got carried away here and he doesn't quite pull off this story. There's some cool setup and genuinely scary stuff (to me), but the characters are weak, they behave stupidly, and the documentary-like structure isn't as effective as it was in WWZ.
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
The "journal" format was sort of undermined by the fact that it was written like a book. The story itself takes a while to get going, but it was short and entertaining enough that I didn't completely hate it.