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A review by tarikotka
The Brotherhood of the Wheel by R.S. Belcher
4.0
3.5 stars rounded up because I honestly enjoyed this
I don't know why I cared for this so much. I mean, it's not good; that is, it's not good in any of the good ways. But it tasted good in all the bad ways. It somehow managed to hit enough right buttons to keep me loving it, through the tons of telling and melodrama and the omg-this-is-embarrassing over-the-top villains and the POV jumps and the character calling cards with the descriptions, oh God, the descriptions and the soundtracks, and the prose that can't decide if it wants to be functional or pretty. My inner "discerning reader" hated it. And my inner wide-eyed, heart-on-the-sleeve 13-year-old freaking loved it.
Or it might be I'm just a sucker for secret societies. Anyway. Shame I didn't like the next one half as much.
I don't know why I cared for this so much. I mean, it's not good; that is, it's not good in any of the good ways. But it tasted good in all the bad ways. It somehow managed to hit enough right buttons to keep me loving it, through the tons of telling and melodrama and the omg-this-is-embarrassing over-the-top villains and the POV jumps and the character calling cards with the descriptions, oh God, the descriptions and the soundtracks, and the prose that can't decide if it wants to be functional or pretty. My inner "discerning reader" hated it. And my inner wide-eyed, heart-on-the-sleeve 13-year-old freaking loved it.
Or it might be I'm just a sucker for secret societies. Anyway. Shame I didn't like the next one half as much.