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olbrownwarder 's review for:
Infected
by Scott Sigler
The Good:
*The story had a good pace, and ramped up nicely.
*The horror elements added a fresh feel to the story, making a trope-y plot feel somewhat newer.
The Bad:
*The characters were flat, archetypal, and failed to engender any empathy. Sympathy, yes, but no real empathy.
*There were heavy uses of homophobic, sexual, and misogynistic phrases. This in itself isn't necessarily a flaw, if they're couched in a way that clearly and unambiguously shows how destructive, offensive, and just plain wrong those views are. While that context was here, I worried that the barrage of remarks swamped the story near the end, and actually drew me out of the story.
*The story had a good pace, and ramped up nicely.
*The horror elements added a fresh feel to the story, making a trope-y plot feel somewhat newer.
The Bad:
*The characters were flat, archetypal, and failed to engender any empathy. Sympathy, yes, but no real empathy.
*There were heavy uses of homophobic, sexual, and misogynistic phrases. This in itself isn't necessarily a flaw, if they're couched in a way that clearly and unambiguously shows how destructive, offensive, and just plain wrong those views are. While that context was here, I worried that the barrage of remarks swamped the story near the end, and actually drew me out of the story.