1.0 out of 5 stars
A Disappointment, July 15 2010
This review is from: Living Hell (Hardcover)
I picked this book up based on the strength of Jinks's previous books ("Evil Genius" and "The Reformed Vampire Support Group").
What a huge disappointment! There are WAY too many characters to properly keep track of, and I didn't like any of them. Because there are so many, none of them end up being properly developed.
The story sounded really cool - a ship comes alive and attacks the inhabitants! Awesome, right? Wrong. First, it takes forever for this to actually happen, even though everyone reading the book knows it's coming. This means the book starts off very slow.
Even after the ship comes "alive," the book is surprisingly tedious. Jinks compares ship parts to organs and other innards over and over and OVER, to the point where you get very tired of the repetitive descriptions. Jinks goes for the gross-out factor frequently, and her graphic descriptions of bodies and deaths and gross things the ship is doing end up replacing any sort of plot.
There is a motley crew of people who would, in a better book, have been trying to save people and find a way to fix the ship. This group starts out with these goals, but ends up just aimlessly wandering around the ship, witnessing more and more gross stuff.
I'd normally recommend a book like this for young teenage boys. But this one is so poorly written, I don't think it could hold ANYONE'S interest. Give it a miss.
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