A review by spellvexit7
Paradise-1 by David Wellington

Did not finish book. Stopped at 50%.
This book started promisingly, and despite the number of pages it was a quick read.  My interest rapidly waned after the protagonists had resolved their first big crisis -- the
boarding of the colony ship
and ensuing "action" felt forced and derivative to me, and seemed like more of a platform for the author to create gross or scary imagery than to provide a truly unnerving experience organically from the situation.  I started skimming sentences, then paragraphs, then called it about halfway through.

Then again, I'm not a big horror fan in general, so it's quite possible this just wasn't the book for me.  My kind of book that might be labeled as horror would be something more like Jeff Vandermeer's Annihilation.
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