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Death Troopers
by Joe Schreiber
Dude, no. *rolls up newspaper and stares at this book I just read* "Bad book, BAD!"
I foolishly had REALLY high hopes for this book,the premise is amazing and the cover art is god tier. Those are pretty much the two stars I gave this book, the two good things about this book.
Little backstory to my history with this book, when it first came out I got it through my local library and was too busy working and in the middle of a move to actually read it, I wanted to desperately though because oh man the idea behind it, the cover art, I kept thinking "Oh man this is gonna be so awesome!"
*Morgan Freeman narration* "It was not gonna be awesome at all."
Hooboy where do I start... It feels like maybe at times the proof editors and publisher tried to make the novel shorter, like maybe Joe Schreiber pitched a really detailed back story about the main characters... How they all fit together, woven like a tapestry.
Nope, characters from earlier that clearly intersected (and had a shared history) later on didn't seem to recall each other. Ass out, complete lack of continuity in spots.
I believe the main characters could have been interesting, but were absolutely not. The story building at the beginning is just unceremoniously dropped. Like any good horror story you're gonna lose some main characters, and you do here... But I didn't care about any of them.
It honestly felt like there was a slow burn at first introducing the main characters, and that some of their motivations would become clear as the story unfolded, but it petered out and then became a chore... But then it was suddenly just abandoned when shit hit the fan... But then the story picked up and the horror element was initially really good...
Like okay yeah y'all were living your tepid little lives and shit went sideways because Evil Empire... But now it's the zombie apocalypse... Then out of the blue there's a... Cameo. Two very well known characters from Star Wars canon step into the scene...
Which hit like a proctologist with a crowbar. Cold, awkward, and you have to raise the question of "why" like a dozen times in this book.
This isn't going to appeal to Star Wars fans, this isn't going to appeal to zombie fans, or horror fans. The characters are entirely forgettable, the storyline jumps from world building and weaving intentions to reasoning out- nope just gonna switch gears here and- wait here's a cameo curve ball that makes little to no damn sense-oh no! Here's some fairly glaring continuity errors- nope here's the ending!
Even the cameo characters were like "Biiiiyyyyyyeeeeeee!" and deuced out without much ado. Much like I wished I had a quarter of the way into this hot mess.
Oh and there's a sequel/prequel that I will never be desperate enough to read.
I foolishly had REALLY high hopes for this book,the premise is amazing and the cover art is god tier. Those are pretty much the two stars I gave this book, the two good things about this book.
Little backstory to my history with this book, when it first came out I got it through my local library and was too busy working and in the middle of a move to actually read it, I wanted to desperately though because oh man the idea behind it, the cover art, I kept thinking "Oh man this is gonna be so awesome!"
*Morgan Freeman narration* "It was not gonna be awesome at all."
Hooboy where do I start... It feels like maybe at times the proof editors and publisher tried to make the novel shorter, like maybe Joe Schreiber pitched a really detailed back story about the main characters... How they all fit together, woven like a tapestry.
Nope, characters from earlier that clearly intersected (and had a shared history) later on didn't seem to recall each other. Ass out, complete lack of continuity in spots.
I believe the main characters could have been interesting, but were absolutely not. The story building at the beginning is just unceremoniously dropped. Like any good horror story you're gonna lose some main characters, and you do here... But I didn't care about any of them.
It honestly felt like there was a slow burn at first introducing the main characters, and that some of their motivations would become clear as the story unfolded, but it petered out and then became a chore... But then it was suddenly just abandoned when shit hit the fan... But then the story picked up and the horror element was initially really good...
Like okay yeah y'all were living your tepid little lives and shit went sideways because Evil Empire... But now it's the zombie apocalypse... Then out of the blue there's a... Cameo. Two very well known characters from Star Wars canon step into the scene...
Which hit like a proctologist with a crowbar. Cold, awkward, and you have to raise the question of "why" like a dozen times in this book.
This isn't going to appeal to Star Wars fans, this isn't going to appeal to zombie fans, or horror fans. The characters are entirely forgettable, the storyline jumps from world building and weaving intentions to reasoning out- nope just gonna switch gears here and- wait here's a cameo curve ball that makes little to no damn sense-oh no! Here's some fairly glaring continuity errors- nope here's the ending!
Even the cameo characters were like "Biiiiyyyyyyeeeeeee!" and deuced out without much ado. Much like I wished I had a quarter of the way into this hot mess.
Oh and there's a sequel/prequel that I will never be desperate enough to read.