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misterrious's review
1.0
I received this book through Netgalley.
Unfortunately, I finished this book. I realize that it must be a difficult thing, writing a book. You have to think about plots and characters and conversations, so I don't like dissing books really, but this was bad. Definitely on my top 10 worst book ever read.
When I was a teenager, I got my wisdom teeth out. After I was done, still loopy from the anesthetic, my mother put me in the car and drove home. Unbeknownst to me, we had had major flooding in our county and she was finding it difficult to find a road home that wasn't flooded. So, I would wake up out of my fogginess and find that we were in a town nowhere near home. I would fade back into unconsciousness and when I awoke again, for a few seconds, would see that we were on the opposite side of the county. I was so disoriented and had no idea what was going on. That's how I felt reading this book.
The writing and conversations were disjointed. The plot was weird and tried too hard. The characters were very flat and I wish they'd all die for Pete's sake. One of my favourite authors is Sherri S. Tepper. She has a way of writing stories that are weird yet compelling and although I hate it when stories have an underlying motive, hers make sense. This did not. I think it kind of has potential, maybe, with a really pushy editor. But the plot was boring, so, maybe not.
Unfortunately, I finished this book. I realize that it must be a difficult thing, writing a book. You have to think about plots and characters and conversations, so I don't like dissing books really, but this was bad. Definitely on my top 10 worst book ever read.
When I was a teenager, I got my wisdom teeth out. After I was done, still loopy from the anesthetic, my mother put me in the car and drove home. Unbeknownst to me, we had had major flooding in our county and she was finding it difficult to find a road home that wasn't flooded. So, I would wake up out of my fogginess and find that we were in a town nowhere near home. I would fade back into unconsciousness and when I awoke again, for a few seconds, would see that we were on the opposite side of the county. I was so disoriented and had no idea what was going on. That's how I felt reading this book.
The writing and conversations were disjointed. The plot was weird and tried too hard. The characters were very flat and I wish they'd all die for Pete's sake. One of my favourite authors is Sherri S. Tepper. She has a way of writing stories that are weird yet compelling and although I hate it when stories have an underlying motive, hers make sense. This did not. I think it kind of has potential, maybe, with a really pushy editor. But the plot was boring, so, maybe not.
paperdreamsblog's review
2.0
Unfortunately I just wasn't able to get through this story. Some will like it but others will not.
lilyn_g's review
2.0
Dead Petals had potential. A group leader who isn't all "Yessss, we must stick together!" and has no desire to be an action hero. The other characters acted just as crazy as you'd expect people to act if the feces ever actually hit the fan. Some of the characters were just amusingly weird in general. The author's view on zombies was unique and extremely interesting. He also has a serious ability for poetic descriptions.
Unfortunately, those are the only positives I can use to describe the story. The writing just could not carry the plot. That's as nicely as I can put it. I constantly found myself backtracking to see what I'd missed, and even wondering at parts if the bad formatting of the e-book I'd received meant that I was actually missing pages of text. No, as it turns out the pages were there, the writing was just that choppy.
Its like the writer wrote down individual scenes as they entered his head, but then never went back through them and included the parts needed to make them a cohesive whole. So you have this constant feeling of jumping around, along with sections that make you wonder exactly when the characters made that left turn at Albuquerque as it tries to trek into the metaphysical.
Again, this book has potential; however, in order to reach it, it desperately needs several sessions with an exacting editor and the author has to be willing to flesh it out more. Without those two things, this book will never be what it could be.
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Disclaimer: I received a copy of this book from Netgalley for review consideration
Unfortunately, those are the only positives I can use to describe the story. The writing just could not carry the plot. That's as nicely as I can put it. I constantly found myself backtracking to see what I'd missed, and even wondering at parts if the bad formatting of the e-book I'd received meant that I was actually missing pages of text. No, as it turns out the pages were there, the writing was just that choppy.
Its like the writer wrote down individual scenes as they entered his head, but then never went back through them and included the parts needed to make them a cohesive whole. So you have this constant feeling of jumping around, along with sections that make you wonder exactly when the characters made that left turn at Albuquerque as it tries to trek into the metaphysical.
Again, this book has potential; however, in order to reach it, it desperately needs several sessions with an exacting editor and the author has to be willing to flesh it out more. Without those two things, this book will never be what it could be.
Visit Scifi and Scary's Book Reviews for many other Science Fiction, Horror, Thriller, and Kids' Books reviews.
Disclaimer: I received a copy of this book from Netgalley for review consideration
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