A review by digitalcage
Wranglestone by Darren Charlton

2.0

I really wanted to love Wranglestone. A young adult, gay, zombie apocalypse novel set in my home state (Montana)--I wanted to embrace every part of that. Unfortunately, Charlton's writing is extremely undeveloped, with no visual sense and a haphazard approach to character revelation. Coincidences are nestled among contradictory descriptions, and emotions appear out of nowhere, stated but not allowed to flourish. While the plot itself is interesting, and the setting full of potential, the actual sentence-by-sentence writing doesn't flow, and the threadbare descriptions fail to give a sense of place. A disappointment that was a struggle to finish.