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minkslaughter 's review for:
The World Walker
by Ian W. Sainsbury
So I'm getting so tired of books and stories that intentionally stoke hatred by depicting loathsome villains whose sole purpose for existing is to make you despise them.
This book does this, and it's especially irritating because there are some interesting aspects to the story like what exactly is happening to Seb after he's visited by a mysterious alien. But of course before he can find out he's got to contend the evil sociopathic black ops operative who loves killing in a myriad of gruesome and sadistic ways. And if you're bored with that or need some more loathing in your literature, well, there's always his murderous power hungry mafia-style boss, or some deluded witchy woman whose only purpose is to kill for Satan. Oh yeah, and there's the psychopathic kid in Seb's past who also really gets his kicks out of hurting other people. So all the villains either seem to lack the capacity to care about their murder victims, or they get a thrill out of it.
All this is obviously being done in the name of revenge porn, which is never particularly satisfying anyway. I'm actually about 3/4 of the way through the first book, and I'm putting it down. If any of the villains survive, then you know it's because the writer needs them to keep on acting like a bunch of assholes in book 2. Like an idiot I bought the second book in the series when I got the first, and I bought audiobooks, so that's a lot of money wasted. But I'm just too pissed off to bother finishing this empty, vacant and largely humourless story. I find it especially irritating since, In spite of seeing the writer going on about using meditation to calm one's spirit, his drives his own plot by cultivating hatred in his readers.
This book does this, and it's especially irritating because there are some interesting aspects to the story like what exactly is happening to Seb after he's visited by a mysterious alien. But of course before he can find out he's got to contend the evil sociopathic black ops operative who loves killing in a myriad of gruesome and sadistic ways. And if you're bored with that or need some more loathing in your literature, well, there's always his murderous power hungry mafia-style boss, or some deluded witchy woman whose only purpose is to kill for Satan. Oh yeah, and there's the psychopathic kid in Seb's past who also really gets his kicks out of hurting other people. So all the villains either seem to lack the capacity to care about their murder victims, or they get a thrill out of it.
All this is obviously being done in the name of revenge porn, which is never particularly satisfying anyway. I'm actually about 3/4 of the way through the first book, and I'm putting it down. If any of the villains survive, then you know it's because the writer needs them to keep on acting like a bunch of assholes in book 2. Like an idiot I bought the second book in the series when I got the first, and I bought audiobooks, so that's a lot of money wasted. But I'm just too pissed off to bother finishing this empty, vacant and largely humourless story. I find it especially irritating since, In spite of seeing the writer going on about using meditation to calm one's spirit, his drives his own plot by cultivating hatred in his readers.