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Infected
by Scott Sigler
I wanted to like this book. I liked the concept, and parts of it were fun, or suspenseful, or grotesque. The concept alone sold me. But...
My biggest problems was the abundance of adverbs and similes. (everything is 'like' something or 'as if it was'; Blood can't just be blood.) And there was just a lot of writing in this book. A lot of prose that (while well-written) doesn't move us forward. It happens throughout the entire book. I eventually just started glossing through the chunky introspective paragraphs and looked for anything that looked important or actually pushed us ahead in the story. This novel needed a better line editor to go through and clear those problems up.
Now don't get me wrong. There were moments in this that were wonderful, hilarious, and disgusting. (in a good way) But it is buried under all the problems of the book, which made it a slog to get through for large chunks. The book isn't very long (339 pages for the hardcover) yet it feels slow for long stretches. I found myself flipping ahead to see how much more I had to get through.
It wasn't ALL bad. And I am interested enough to check out some of the author's later works.
I guess that's something.
My biggest problems was the abundance of adverbs and similes. (everything is 'like' something or 'as if it was'; Blood can't just be blood.) And there was just a lot of writing in this book. A lot of prose that (while well-written) doesn't move us forward. It happens throughout the entire book. I eventually just started glossing through the chunky introspective paragraphs and looked for anything that looked important or actually pushed us ahead in the story. This novel needed a better line editor to go through and clear those problems up.
Now don't get me wrong. There were moments in this that were wonderful, hilarious, and disgusting. (in a good way) But it is buried under all the problems of the book, which made it a slog to get through for large chunks. The book isn't very long (339 pages for the hardcover) yet it feels slow for long stretches. I found myself flipping ahead to see how much more I had to get through.
It wasn't ALL bad. And I am interested enough to check out some of the author's later works.
I guess that's something.