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A review by ceeceewills23
Body Rides by Richard Laymon
2.0
The struggle to get through this book was REAL.
While I liked the concept of the bracelet and taking "body rides" as they're called in this book, much of everything else that makes up the book was either annoying or frustrating. For example, I hated pretty much all of these characters. They made incredibly stupid decisions, and their conversations were so circuitous sometimes that it made me skip whole sections of dialogue until they finally got to the point or the decision was made.
Also, there were plot points that occurred that had absolutely no bearing on the overall story. I feel as though they were there to add shock value, more so than to show how the bracelet works or add any crucial information to the overall conflict of the story. In a book that's over 500 pages long, scenes and characters that don't advance the plot are nothing but a waste of my time.
I basically spent much of this book frustrated and reading ahead to see if anything interesting was coming up. But I did manage to force myself to finish it all the way through to the extremely convenient ending, so I guess that's something.
While I liked the concept of the bracelet and taking "body rides" as they're called in this book, much of everything else that makes up the book was either annoying or frustrating. For example, I hated pretty much all of these characters. They made incredibly stupid decisions, and their conversations were so circuitous sometimes that it made me skip whole sections of dialogue until they finally got to the point or the decision was made.
Also, there were plot points that occurred that had absolutely no bearing on the overall story. I feel as though they were there to add shock value, more so than to show how the bracelet works or add any crucial information to the overall conflict of the story. In a book that's over 500 pages long, scenes and characters that don't advance the plot are nothing but a waste of my time.
I basically spent much of this book frustrated and reading ahead to see if anything interesting was coming up. But I did manage to force myself to finish it all the way through to the extremely convenient ending, so I guess that's something.