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A review by danibeliveau
Shadow Unit 1 by Elizabeth Bear, Will Shetterly, Kyle Cassidy, Sarah Monette, Emma Bull
2.0
I bought this ebook for $0.99. You get what you pay for.
The concept is interesting and familiar: an FBI task force assigned to entities called "anomalies," a type of supernatural possession causing people to commit crimes, mostly murder.
Sarah Monette and Will Shetterly saved this from being a one-star experience. I love everything Sarah has written - it was what brought me to this book - and Will's writing was a pleasant surprise, though that might have been because the other parts of the story were so difficult to get through. Slogging through Emma Bull and Elizabeth Bear's clumsy prose and lifeless, stereotypical characters, I was ready to abandon this book before I got to Sarah's section, which was itself enjoyable, but ultimately not worth the frustration.
I'm willing to concede that things probably got lost in translation when story was put into ebook form, but that doesn't motivate me to want to read any more of it. If it hadn't been so cheap, I would want my money back.
The concept is interesting and familiar: an FBI task force assigned to entities called "anomalies," a type of supernatural possession causing people to commit crimes, mostly murder.
Sarah Monette and Will Shetterly saved this from being a one-star experience. I love everything Sarah has written - it was what brought me to this book - and Will's writing was a pleasant surprise, though that might have been because the other parts of the story were so difficult to get through. Slogging through Emma Bull and Elizabeth Bear's clumsy prose and lifeless, stereotypical characters, I was ready to abandon this book before I got to Sarah's section, which was itself enjoyable, but ultimately not worth the frustration.
I'm willing to concede that things probably got lost in translation when story was put into ebook form, but that doesn't motivate me to want to read any more of it. If it hadn't been so cheap, I would want my money back.