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A review by egumeny
High Voltage by Eirik Gumeny
4.0
So, in my ongoing revisitation of the older books while I finish the new book -- soon, I swear -- I finally got around to (more or less) objectively reading High Voltage. And... I liked it. The scavenger hunt plot was a nice change of pace, I liked the B plot possible more than the A plot, and I'm glad [redacted] made his return.
Definitely no writery baggage brought to this one, unlike Dead Presidents, so that's good -- I can just read the book for what it is. That said, HV doesn't stick with me the way the first book did, but I think that's because I didn't know what I was doing the first time around. Exponential Apocalypse was great because it wasn't written to be a book, and that manic, I'm-not-entirely-sure-this-is-going-to-work vibe comes through. That's probably not something I'll ever be able to recreate and I should probably come to terms with that.
Definitely no writery baggage brought to this one, unlike Dead Presidents, so that's good -- I can just read the book for what it is. That said, HV doesn't stick with me the way the first book did, but I think that's because I didn't know what I was doing the first time around. Exponential Apocalypse was great because it wasn't written to be a book, and that manic, I'm-not-entirely-sure-this-is-going-to-work vibe comes through. That's probably not something I'll ever be able to recreate and I should probably come to terms with that.