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A review by poultrymunitions
Cold Fusion by Harper Fox
2.0
unbelievable.
it's been a long month, and my disappointment with this book is so keen i find i don't even have it in me to be anything but bleakly succinct where i should be expansive and helpful.
a friend put it this way:
all the lovely prose in the world can't elevate a crazypants plot and a distressingly poor representation of autism.
the story is completely bananas. with thecold fusion on and off again like a bloody hobby, and the murdering so and so, and the bone marrow transplant happening in five minutes, and all the rest of the unhinged goings-on.
and then the autism stuff started out okay but then veered into the offensive and the bewildering.
but for me, the worst of it was the wildly unsympathetic narrator.
i lost my temper with him early, and our partnership never recovered. always saying and doing the wrong things, and being a dick to his supposed and astonishingly sudden love interest, and then outta nowhere he's a ride or die motherfucker here to stick it out to the end, and then he's fucking up like he's 15 and seriously angry about his ma ironing a crease into the front of his jeans or something.
selfish, impulsive, thoughtless, destructive, overbearing, and reckless.
and irritatingly credulous, too.
he's fuckin horrible.
so yeah.
...you'll note my exhaustion has mysteriously vanished long enough for me to articulate my antipathy for him.
it's been a long month, and my disappointment with this book is so keen i find i don't even have it in me to be anything but bleakly succinct where i should be expansive and helpful.
a friend put it this way:
all the lovely prose in the world can't elevate a crazypants plot and a distressingly poor representation of autism.
the story is completely bananas. with the
and then the autism stuff started out okay but then veered into the offensive and the bewildering.
but for me, the worst of it was the wildly unsympathetic narrator.
i lost my temper with him early, and our partnership never recovered. always saying and doing the wrong things, and being a dick to his supposed and astonishingly sudden love interest, and then outta nowhere he's a ride or die motherfucker here to stick it out to the end, and then he's fucking up like he's 15 and seriously angry about his ma ironing a crease into the front of his jeans or something.
selfish, impulsive, thoughtless, destructive, overbearing, and reckless.
and irritatingly credulous, too.
he's fuckin horrible.
so yeah.
...you'll note my exhaustion has mysteriously vanished long enough for me to articulate my antipathy for him.