A review by billies_not_so_secret_diary
Leech by Hiron Ennes

dark slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.0

Leech 
by Hiron Ennes 
Science Fiction Dystopian 
Scribd Audio 

The Interprovincial Medical Institute is hundreds of years old, living in the minds of the young, molding their young human brains into doctors, and replacing the human versions so they alone can heal the ills of the humans. And in doing so, has eyes all over what is left of the world. 

In the far north, there is a Baron, and after his doctor dies of mysterious circumstances, a new doctor is sent to replace him. After an autopsy, the new doctor finds a parasite behind the old doctor's eye, a parasite that just might be the Institute's replacement. 

Even though this story is labeled as horror, I wouldn't call it that. It isn't scary. There is also really no time stamp on this story or a place, other than 'the far north', but it might have been the author's intention, though, without a place or time, I couldn't really connect with the world around the characters. The MC, I wasn't sure what sex she was until later in the story. I'm old school, so I need to know 'who' they are to be able to connect with them on a deeper level. I think the story takes place in the very far future on Earth, and I'm also not sure what kind of 'creatures' the characters were. Some were designated as human, but others... 

The overall idea was interesting, but the execution wasn't that great. Without the who, what, where, and when explained, it made it hard to relate and get drawn into the story because I kept wondering what I missed. 

And some of the filler, I felt was overly done. More background on the time and place, and how it ended up that way would've been a better use of the words. I'm always interested in what happened to create a world in this kind of distress. I think things like that give me a better connection to the characters. 

Though, missing some tidbits could be on the narrator. She was good, and was able to create different voices for the characters, but her accents were too thick with some of them and that made it hard to understand what they were saying, and one did have a lot of stories to tell but I couldn't understand all of his words because of her accent. 

2 Stars 


SEMI SPOILER! 


The LGBT/Queer genre tag, while it does have some relevance, I don't feel it's appropriate due to that relationship was rape. 
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