Reviews - I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom

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I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom

Jason Pargin

3.98 AVERAGE

scutoidal's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Best book I've read in a long time!

anexcessofebooks's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

nm237's review against another edition

3.5

dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Tripped on the misogyny of one of the main characters…. I understand why, but it was focused on nearly to the point of making the character almost one dimensional and the point would have gotten across just as well with less.

jkfiore's review against another edition

A quarter of the way into the book and didn't feel grabbed by the characters or the plot. I did not want to persevere for 300 more pages. Genre is thriller, but I was not thrilled

leonardtalbot's review

2.0

First, I receieved this as an Arc on NetGalley and I so appreciate the opportunbity to review this before release. I was genuinely excited to read this but that excitement did not last the length of the read. There are a couple quick bullets I will put here that crafted my opinion on this book.

1. This felt like the literary version of Jason's TikTok stream. Although I laugh generally at his content and albeit, the reason I wanted to read this, it didn't translate well to page. There is plenty of action but it all felt sort of nonsensical and loosely crafted to weave meme imagery mixed with deep internet humor unnecessarily.

2. The length. My god why was this so long. I think there could have been 100 pages removed from this novel and still gotten the point across.

3. The first quarter of the book is the best part. I kept waiting for something meaningful as I read but I lost complete intrigue after they were on the road in earnest.

I did find it entertaining and at times laughed out loud but I couldn't recommend this book as it is just not for me.