{"id":547,"date":"2013-01-21T10:00:54","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T18:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/?p=547"},"modified":"2013-01-21T10:01:49","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T18:01:49","slug":"death-warmed-over-review-on-goodreads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/21\/death-warmed-over-review-on-goodreads\/","title":{"rendered":"Death Warmed Over– review on Goodreads"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Death<\/a>Death Warmed Over<\/a> by Kevin J. Anderson<\/a><\/p>\n

My rating: 1 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n

Didn’t like this one, almost from the beginning. And since I didn’t like it, my review\u2019s going to be harsh. I mean, I\u2019ll forgive poor writing if I\u2019m enjoying the read. But this was tough for me to even finish. And yes, saying this is \u201cpoor writing\u201d might be a bit much. Honestly, if it weren’t for some of the subject matter, I would have assumed this was written for teenagers. Sorry, teenagers, I don\u2019t mean to insult you. But you know how people write down to the young, and that\u2019s what this read like.<\/p>\n

Meandering plot, until things sort of linked up– almost as if the author, Kevin J. Anderson, was just writing whatever, and attaching loose ends together as he went along. Maybe that\u2019s fine for deeply introspective drama, but not for light-hearted genre fiction (in my opinion). There\u2019s no real plot, or, if you insist that there is a mystery that was to be solved, fine– there\u2019s certainly no story. Just the main character explaining how the world is now that \u201cunnaturals\u201d have become a normal part of society. No rising action. Just a series of occurrences that get jammed together at the end.<\/p>\n

And Anderson doesn’t even do anything interesting with these \u201cunnaturals.\u201d The main character is a zombie, which is only exploited once in the whole novel. His girlfriend\u2019s a ghost, which adds a tiny bit of tension but, again, it\u2019s un-utilized and in the end, pointless. There\u2019s vampires, werewolves… and now that I think about it, not much else.<\/p>\n

There are also humans who hate the unnaturals, which Anderson uses for the so-called plot, taking a subject like racism and turning it into something goofy and flat. Towards the end, this serves as the motivation for the \u201cmystery\u201d which isn’t really a mystery because it\u2019s so obvious what\u2019s going on, one wonders how much respect Anderson has for his main character.<\/p>\n

Or his reader, I guess. The whole thing felt like Anderson got an idea he thought was clever, and decided that cleverness, alone, was enough reason to write a book. Well, maybe it is. But is it enough reason to read a book? My reading experience is telling me no.<\/p>\n

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Death Warmed Over by Kevin J. Anderson My rating: 1 of 5 stars Didn’t like this one, almost from the beginning. And since I didn’t like it, my review\u2019s going to be harsh. I mean, I\u2019ll forgive poor writing if I\u2019m enjoying the read. But this was tough for me to even finish. And yes, … <\/p>\n

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