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A review by erat
The Demonists by Thomas E. Sniegoski
3.0
I have to begin with this: I love love LOVE the front cover of this book. It's what drew me to the book in the first place, and no matter what I think of what's between the covers, the front cover rocks. Amazing.
As for the rest...
This is one helluva creative story. Lots of action, lots of scenes that I can't say I've read/seen before, lots of stuff to keep me entertained. There's just one, slightly major problem, and I think I may look like a complete ass for saying what it is but that's a-okay with me: this book was WAAAAAY too short.
Yeah, you read that correctly. I think this should have been a 400-500 page book. Not because I like dragging things out, but because I like characters to be squishy and fleshy and real and unfortunately the characters in this book were almost completely flat. Like, Flat Stanley flat. I knew who each character was and I knew what role each character played and I had no problem telling them apart, but other than Nana who only pops up a few times in the book, I felt like each character was an executive summary of what the character was supposed to be. In the hands of an author like Stephen King, this would have been a 600 page book. Possibly excessive, but I guarantee by the time the feco-ventilatory collisions occur, you'd feel like you know the characters, like your friends are living through some shit, not some picture-in-a-newspaper person that has no connection to you.
This is not a deal breaker by any stretch, just a disappointment. I'm a weirdo: I have no problem with a book sacrificing action if it means more character development, so if about 100 or so pages could have been added to make the folks in this book more real, that would have pushed the rating closer to 5 stars. It's a good book, but I can see a great book in here begging to be released. Heavy sigh.
I won this book through a Goodreads Giveaway in exchange for an honest review. I honestly would love to get a book that tells this story from Nana's perspective. Like The Lovely Bones but for demonists. Some day.
As for the rest...
This is one helluva creative story. Lots of action, lots of scenes that I can't say I've read/seen before, lots of stuff to keep me entertained. There's just one, slightly major problem, and I think I may look like a complete ass for saying what it is but that's a-okay with me: this book was WAAAAAY too short.
Yeah, you read that correctly. I think this should have been a 400-500 page book. Not because I like dragging things out, but because I like characters to be squishy and fleshy and real and unfortunately the characters in this book were almost completely flat. Like, Flat Stanley flat. I knew who each character was and I knew what role each character played and I had no problem telling them apart, but other than Nana who only pops up a few times in the book, I felt like each character was an executive summary of what the character was supposed to be. In the hands of an author like Stephen King, this would have been a 600 page book. Possibly excessive, but I guarantee by the time the feco-ventilatory collisions occur, you'd feel like you know the characters, like your friends are living through some shit, not some picture-in-a-newspaper person that has no connection to you.
This is not a deal breaker by any stretch, just a disappointment. I'm a weirdo: I have no problem with a book sacrificing action if it means more character development, so if about 100 or so pages could have been added to make the folks in this book more real, that would have pushed the rating closer to 5 stars. It's a good book, but I can see a great book in here begging to be released. Heavy sigh.
I won this book through a Goodreads Giveaway in exchange for an honest review. I honestly would love to get a book that tells this story from Nana's perspective. Like The Lovely Bones but for demonists. Some day.