Jan 10 - Jan 13, 2012
Day By Day Armageddon: Beyond Exile
J. L. Bourne
Horror
Published July 2010
249 pages
6.5/10
Our hero is back, with more responsibility than ever.
THE FUCK. The first book in this series was definitely badass; while it seemed male-centric, the protagonist was fuckin' SMART, and I respected that. NOW? This book? Buddy's transformed from clever survivalist with a military background to total military robot. Really, he doesn't even seem human anymore. He's completely detached from everything going on around him; even though he's got a hot survivor woman who wants a piece, she's relegated to being mentioned a few times in a couple of paragraphs. Like I said, our protagonist is a robot. No fun.
On top of that, this book is so liberally encrusted with military terms that, half the time, I had no idea what the fuck I was reading about. I'm not an idiot; I know the difference between a pistol and a shotgun, but an MP4 and an MP5? Why? What can't the author just focus on one? Why does the protagonist have to have both in this book? Does it really matter that he has the first, gets the second, and then debates between the two without really giving any pertinent info on either one? Totally unnecessary. And then they go into experimental weaponry and technology... I was totally lost and just ended up feeling ambivalent about it after a while. You want to throw dozens of technical terms at me without even a goddamn diagram to help me? Fine. See this?
Day By Day Armageddon: Beyond Exile
J. L. Bourne
Horror
Published July 2010
249 pages
6.5/10
Our hero is back, with more responsibility than ever.
THE FUCK. The first book in this series was definitely badass; while it seemed male-centric, the protagonist was fuckin' SMART, and I respected that. NOW? This book? Buddy's transformed from clever survivalist with a military background to total military robot. Really, he doesn't even seem human anymore. He's completely detached from everything going on around him; even though he's got a hot survivor woman who wants a piece, she's relegated to being mentioned a few times in a couple of paragraphs. Like I said, our protagonist is a robot. No fun.
On top of that, this book is so liberally encrusted with military terms that, half the time, I had no idea what the fuck I was reading about. I'm not an idiot; I know the difference between a pistol and a shotgun, but an MP4 and an MP5? Why? What can't the author just focus on one? Why does the protagonist have to have both in this book? Does it really matter that he has the first, gets the second, and then debates between the two without really giving any pertinent info on either one? Totally unnecessary. And then they go into experimental weaponry and technology... I was totally lost and just ended up feeling ambivalent about it after a while. You want to throw dozens of technical terms at me without even a goddamn diagram to help me? Fine. See this?
Now I'm I'm just skimming, dude.
I felt like there were some really rad plot lines that were going to be developed; we got the first little bit of them, I got all excited about some real action, and then... NADA. Maybe the author is saving the good stuff for his next book, but I don't think I'll be running out to the bookstore to get it. You know what this book gets from me? One of these:
I felt like there were some really rad plot lines that were going to be developed; we got the first little bit of them, I got all excited about some real action, and then... NADA. Maybe the author is saving the good stuff for his next book, but I don't think I'll be running out to the bookstore to get it. You know what this book gets from me? One of these:
Because it got my hopes up for another badass book, turned the protagonist into a robot, started to get into some seriously interesting plot lines and then left me hanging, and didn't even bother to refer me to Future Weapons so I could grasp at least an IDEA of what the fuck the author kept going on and on about.
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