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The Broken Room by Peter Clines
Did not finish book.
Dnf at a car switch over on a rooftop carpark somewhere. I've forgotten where. I listened to this.
It started out really well and went along at a good clip. The action was just as I like it, enough to let you know that Hector clearly knew what he was about without going into soooo much detail it stops being fun and gets in the way of the story.
And then we got Natalie's story. In. Great. Detail.
I didn't know it was possible to be horrified (by what happened to Natalie, from crossing into America all the way to the Project and the others) and bored almost to tears. I was definitely so fed up I started yelling at the audio 'Yes! I get it now, bloody get on with it, I don't care how many times you ate or went into the broken room'.
I was THRILLED when the SUV with the baddies in it tried to run them off the road, it cut Natalie's blow by blow, I'm sorry I mean 'precise' account short. Bliss!
From her tedious accounts ' I cleaned my teeth, I cleaned each tooth 42 times'. She didn't actually say she'd done that, I made that bit up, but she might as well have done it. Everything else was about as riveting as tooth cleaning.
Absolutely tedious.
I liked that she had Tim as the voice she spoke to in her head. I believe this is the same Tim from 14 (which was joyously excellent by the way). And that's all I can find to like about her.
I keep hoping Peter Clines is going to write something along the lines of 14 and The Fold. I don't mind if it's not Threshold Universe. I just loved the grown-up Scooby-Doo/horrible but not tooo awful horror.
Clearly this is not the droid I am looking for.
I'll try his next book when/if it comes along.
It started out really well and went along at a good clip. The action was just as I like it, enough to let you know that Hector clearly knew what he was about without going into soooo much detail it stops being fun and gets in the way of the story.
And then we got Natalie's story. In. Great. Detail.
I didn't know it was possible to be horrified (by what happened to Natalie, from crossing into America all the way to the Project and the others) and bored almost to tears. I was definitely so fed up I started yelling at the audio 'Yes! I get it now, bloody get on with it, I don't care how many times you ate or went into the broken room'.
I was THRILLED when the SUV with the baddies in it tried to run them off the road, it cut Natalie's blow by blow, I'm sorry I mean 'precise' account short. Bliss!
From her tedious accounts ' I cleaned my teeth, I cleaned each tooth 42 times'. She didn't actually say she'd done that, I made that bit up, but she might as well have done it. Everything else was about as riveting as tooth cleaning.
Absolutely tedious.
I liked that she had Tim as the voice she spoke to in her head. I believe this is the same Tim from 14 (which was joyously excellent by the way). And that's all I can find to like about her.
I keep hoping Peter Clines is going to write something along the lines of 14 and The Fold. I don't mind if it's not Threshold Universe. I just loved the grown-up Scooby-Doo/horrible but not tooo awful horror.
Clearly this is not the droid I am looking for.
I'll try his next book when/if it comes along.