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A review by sterling8
No Gods, No Monsters by Cadwell Turnbull
2.0
Thanks to Netgalley for providing a copy of this book for review.
I was interested in the premise of this book- what happens when monsters or supernatural beings reveal that they've been among us all along? But I had difficulties.
The book jumps around a lot. There were at least three or four different storylines happening when I put the book down. Some of them might have been tangentially connected, but I couldn't tell. It seemed like one character (who spoke in first person) would insert themselves into the middle of other storylines like they were observing, but they were either dreaming, astrally-projecting, or somehow being there without any other characters noticing. I wasn't sure what was happening. The breaks between the storylines themselves were abrupt in transition. Maybe the copy of the book I had didn't have breaks marked as clearly, but I had difficulty with the changing storylines. Also, the characters themselves didn't seem to have distinct voices. There were different characters introduced, but I had a hard time keeping track of who was who because they "sounded" similar to me. Sondra and Sonya, for example. They were introduced in the same sentence and I couldn't distinguish them personality-wise.
Tone fluctuated, too. There was a young woman agonizing about her brother, who had been molested as a boy, and how she failed to save him. Then a quick change to a scene about a secret semi-cannibal cult- horror, sort of? Then a character having a beer in St. Thomas reminiscing about old times.
I couldn't seem to concentrate enough to get a handle on what was happening, and I ended up putting the book down for good.
I was interested in the premise of this book- what happens when monsters or supernatural beings reveal that they've been among us all along? But I had difficulties.
The book jumps around a lot. There were at least three or four different storylines happening when I put the book down. Some of them might have been tangentially connected, but I couldn't tell. It seemed like one character (who spoke in first person) would insert themselves into the middle of other storylines like they were observing, but they were either dreaming, astrally-projecting, or somehow being there without any other characters noticing. I wasn't sure what was happening. The breaks between the storylines themselves were abrupt in transition. Maybe the copy of the book I had didn't have breaks marked as clearly, but I had difficulty with the changing storylines. Also, the characters themselves didn't seem to have distinct voices. There were different characters introduced, but I had a hard time keeping track of who was who because they "sounded" similar to me. Sondra and Sonya, for example. They were introduced in the same sentence and I couldn't distinguish them personality-wise.
Tone fluctuated, too. There was a young woman agonizing about her brother, who had been molested as a boy, and how she failed to save him. Then a quick change to a scene about a secret semi-cannibal cult- horror, sort of? Then a character having a beer in St. Thomas reminiscing about old times.
I couldn't seem to concentrate enough to get a handle on what was happening, and I ended up putting the book down for good.