A review by beytwice
The Loop by Jeremy Robert Johnson

4.0

Comparing The Loop to Stranger Things is entirely a discredit to both parties — aside from the 'teens fighting unknown entity in a kooky town' trope at a very superficial level, I didn't feel any strong connection in atsmophere or narrative between the two. This read more as if Michael Crichton and David Cronenberg had a book baby; biotech meets body horror in a weird pandemic-like disaster that just spirals to unknown grounds. I loved the directions The Loop was unafraid to go in (cemetery car chase sequences, emotional cords being struck, and killer octopi?!) and my only real critique is the lengthy sections of exposition that I feel could have been divulged in a smoother and smarter manner. The ending however was absolutely killer and I loved the writing style as a whole! A very easy book to reread and annotate entire passages throughout.