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A review by exorcismemily
Awakened by James S. Murray, Darren Wearmouth
2.0
2.5⭐
"The power cut. Total darkness. Glass shattering. So many screams. So many..."
Holy fucking opening. It is described on the back of the book, but I still absolutely loved the subway leaving on its first journey & coming back empty & covered in blood. AMAZING & SO CREEPY.
Obviously I was hooked on the beginning of the book. The short chapters keep everything moving along quickly, and I was dying to know what happened.
In opposition to the ease of the short chapters, there were entirely too many characters. It was difficult to keep everyone straight, and eventually I pretty much gave up on keeping track of who was who.
By the middle of the book, it started to become clear that answers weren't coming anytime soon, and my interest began to fade a bit. I'm not a huge fan of pure action - I need storytelling & suspense to carry it along, and Awakened ends up relying on fight scene after fight scene. If this is your thing, this book is definitely for you. I feel like I spent a lot of time waiting for anything else to happen.
I don't like when storylines are set up & then not explained. I am pretty sure that this was a ploy to get people to purchase the second book (if there is one), and that frustrates me. It's the first book in the series, and it's unfinished since almost nothing was explained. The things that were explained weren't explained that well, and the format for explaining them was not creative.
Awakened started out well enough to be an awesome horror/sci-fi thriller, but more than anything else, it's a political thriller with monsters. I probably would not have picked up this book if that's how I knew it was going to be. I feel like the purpose of this book was to get a TV or book deal - it's fine if that ends up happening, but I want the actual book/story to be the priority.
Thank you to Harper Voyager for sending copies to the NightWorms to review.
"The power cut. Total darkness. Glass shattering. So many screams. So many..."
Holy fucking opening. It is described on the back of the book, but I still absolutely loved the subway leaving on its first journey & coming back empty & covered in blood. AMAZING & SO CREEPY.
Obviously I was hooked on the beginning of the book. The short chapters keep everything moving along quickly, and I was dying to know what happened.
In opposition to the ease of the short chapters, there were entirely too many characters. It was difficult to keep everyone straight, and eventually I pretty much gave up on keeping track of who was who.
By the middle of the book, it started to become clear that answers weren't coming anytime soon, and my interest began to fade a bit. I'm not a huge fan of pure action - I need storytelling & suspense to carry it along, and Awakened ends up relying on fight scene after fight scene. If this is your thing, this book is definitely for you. I feel like I spent a lot of time waiting for anything else to happen.
I don't like when storylines are set up & then not explained. I am pretty sure that this was a ploy to get people to purchase the second book (if there is one), and that frustrates me. It's the first book in the series, and it's unfinished since almost nothing was explained. The things that were explained weren't explained that well, and the format for explaining them was not creative.
Awakened started out well enough to be an awesome horror/sci-fi thriller, but more than anything else, it's a political thriller with monsters. I probably would not have picked up this book if that's how I knew it was going to be. I feel like the purpose of this book was to get a TV or book deal - it's fine if that ends up happening, but I want the actual book/story to be the priority.
Thank you to Harper Voyager for sending copies to the NightWorms to review.