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A review by orasmis
The Brothers Crunk by William Pauley III, Megan Hansen
3.0
Trigger warnings: cannibalism, parasites, blood/gore, death, murder, implied genocide, forced imprisonment (of supernatural beings), possible psychotic break
Brothers Divey and Reynold Crunk are two traveling breakfast burrito salesmen. After losing a third member of their party they find something in the desert they sets off a transformation in one of them. Follow them as they travel Planet Japan in search of a living and the events that take place after this discovery.
I’ll start with positives. I really liked the brother main characters. Reynold in particular was very funny at points in the story and I liked following him. The narration for the audiobook version of this was mostly amazing. There’s a kind of space slug later in the book that I didn’t like his performance of but other than that he did a great job.
This wasn’t my favorite William Pauley book ever though. I had so many questions that never got answer over the course of the story (which I can slightly understand since this is so short but I’ve read novella that have managed to world build before).
What happened to the world to turn it into a post apocalyptic world?
Why did Japan seemingly come out on top and why are two British and/or Irish the people that came out on top there?
Is there a rest of the world outside of Planet Japan?
Why are the only weapons ikr video game controllers? Why are they jacked directly into someone’s body in order for them to work?
What’s the deal with the wasp women? Are there other human animal hybrids like that out in the world?
Can someone really be called a traveling burrito salesman if they never sell a single burrito?
The author dumps you into the world here with zero information or explanation as to what is going on. I spent the majority of the book super confused as to why things were happening (I had no idea what was happening or why it was happening for a very large chunk of this book) and wondering if this was a sequel to something else in a series I’ve never heard or but I’m pretty sure they isn’t t case.
There was a surprising amount of blood and gore in this for such a short length. I’m just happy he didn’t try to shove gross sex stuff in this like he has with a couple of his other books.
Overall I have no idea if I actually recommend this. Maybe for fans of horror on the more extreme side but I hesitate to call this a horror book despite all of the death that goes on in it (if it’s a supernatural man made being that’s doing the killing is it still murder). If you really want to read a William Pauley III book I recommend The Tower or The Astronaut Dream book instead they are both much better than this one.
Brothers Divey and Reynold Crunk are two traveling breakfast burrito salesmen. After losing a third member of their party they find something in the desert they sets off a transformation in one of them. Follow them as they travel Planet Japan in search of a living and the events that take place after this discovery.
I’ll start with positives. I really liked the brother main characters. Reynold in particular was very funny at points in the story and I liked following him. The narration for the audiobook version of this was mostly amazing. There’s a kind of space slug later in the book that I didn’t like his performance of but other than that he did a great job.
This wasn’t my favorite William Pauley book ever though. I had so many questions that never got answer over the course of the story (which I can slightly understand since this is so short but I’ve read novella that have managed to world build before).
What happened to the world to turn it into a post apocalyptic world?
Why did Japan seemingly come out on top and why are two British and/or Irish the people that came out on top there?
Is there a rest of the world outside of Planet Japan?
Why are the only weapons ikr video game controllers? Why are they jacked directly into someone’s body in order for them to work?
What’s the deal with the wasp women? Are there other human animal hybrids like that out in the world?
Can someone really be called a traveling burrito salesman if they never sell a single burrito?
The author dumps you into the world here with zero information or explanation as to what is going on. I spent the majority of the book super confused as to why things were happening (I had no idea what was happening or why it was happening for a very large chunk of this book) and wondering if this was a sequel to something else in a series I’ve never heard or but I’m pretty sure they isn’t t case.
There was a surprising amount of blood and gore in this for such a short length. I’m just happy he didn’t try to shove gross sex stuff in this like he has with a couple of his other books.
Overall I have no idea if I actually recommend this. Maybe for fans of horror on the more extreme side but I hesitate to call this a horror book despite all of the death that goes on in it (if it’s a supernatural man made being that’s doing the killing is it still murder). If you really want to read a William Pauley III book I recommend The Tower or The Astronaut Dream book instead they are both much better than this one.