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3.0étoiles sur 5
Memorable page-turner, but SO flawed...(maybe spoiler), Juil 11 2004
Par Un client
I'll spare you the book report and shoot to the flaws, as I saw them:Clark never explains why Valdiva was able to beat up that bully in the middle-school flashback, or why that incident was so similar to his ax-murdering of infected visitors to Sullivan. There would seem to be a tie-in, but there just isn't. Clark twice, accidentally, refers to his devastated hometown of Lewis as "Sullivan." Why is the book so poorly edited?! Full of errors, like a manuscript that needs one more proofread it didn't get. What the people of Sullivan do to that girl is so horrible, so putrid, Valdiva should have (and could have, supposedly) ax murdered them all, so why the blank didn't he? Valdiva let that crime go unpunished, and I lost respect for him - and the story - because of it. Why did Valdiva find himself swept up by murderous rage when confronted by ONE infected monster, but when menaced by a crowd of them, he turned tail and fled with a perfectly clear head like anyone else would do? Valdiva's method of execution of those poor visitors to Sullivan was needlessly sloppy and hideous. I disliked him for it. The explanation for that wasn't good enough, and that behavior in him didn't even last through the book. Why couldn't he have used a gun from the start? It P'd me off when Valdiva's little buddy kept showing concern for the putrid townfolk of Sullivan - more so when Valdiva listened to the guy! There was no mercy for infected visitors, and that was "OKAY," so why couldn't Valdiva show no mercy to the worthless citizenry without the book appearing politically incorrect and a bad influence on us readers?? Yes, the novel is VEDDY British for a novel set in America. That was most evident in Clark's use of our mutual language, like the shortening of "around" to "'round," and saying "come to that" instead of "as a matter of fact." But after a while, it didn't distract me. The flaws rankled as I read, but I didn't want to put it down. Good story, decent writing and, I thought, a GREAT ending.
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