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A review by donasbooks
Device Free Weekend by Sean Doolittle
2.0
I found my copy of DEVICE FREE WEEKEND by Sean Doolittle, published by Hachette Audio and Grand Central Publishing, on Libby.
Okay. I'm sorry, but this book makes. No. Sense. Doolittle throws everything but the kitchen sink into this plot. Corporate retreat on a remote island. I'm with it, good setting, decent basic concept.
But then we have a narcissistic genius playing games with his people to apparently mask a deadly illness and protect stock value. So a little corporate espionage and psychotic behavior, I'm still with it.
Throw in meaningless deadly fighting between characters who just have no motivation to fight to the death. Not over these narrative peanuts. And apparently mad genius is also mentally ill, like severe enough to have delusions and hallucinations. (Someone needs to do his abnormal psych homework.)
And we can't forget the 9-11 bombings, which, YES!, Doolittle works into the story also, right at the end.
This book is just a mess, and I was never sure at any point where the story was positioned or heading. Finishing this audiobook was an exercise in willpower. Honestly, the only thing I liked was the narrator, Zachary Weber, who read with enough intensity to keep me going when I'd rather be napping.
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Okay. I'm sorry, but this book makes. No. Sense. Doolittle throws everything but the kitchen sink into this plot. Corporate retreat on a remote island. I'm with it, good setting, decent basic concept.
But then we have a narcissistic genius playing games with his people to apparently mask a deadly illness and protect stock value. So a little corporate espionage and psychotic behavior, I'm still with it.
Throw in meaningless deadly fighting between characters who just have no motivation to fight to the death. Not over these narrative peanuts. And apparently mad genius is also mentally ill, like severe enough to have delusions and hallucinations. (Someone needs to do his abnormal psych homework.)
And we can't forget the 9-11 bombings, which, YES!, Doolittle works into the story also, right at the end.
This book is just a mess, and I was never sure at any point where the story was positioned or heading. Finishing this audiobook was an exercise in willpower. Honestly, the only thing I liked was the narrator, Zachary Weber, who read with enough intensity to keep me going when I'd rather be napping.
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