Jul 03, 2017sarahbru17 rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
Characters: 10/10
Plot: 7/10
Writing: 8/10
This book is written in third person, present tense, which demands a certain level of immediacy that was difficult to get used to. Stylistically, Wendig also uses a lot of sentence fragments, quick images, and powerful similes to zoom through the action. While this is certainly a great way to get one's heart pumping, it was sometimes too intense and required a lot of focus as a reader.
Especially because I was listening to it as an audiobook, it was very difficult to keep track of all the characters at first. I really couldn't tell who I was supposed to invest in as the protagonist because the PoV changed so often (especially with the "interludes"). I've never seen a work endeavor to keep in touch with so many characters at once, but eventually, I got used to it and really enjoyed it.
The audiobook version is FANTASTIC. I can't imagine reading this on the page when Mark Thompson did such a fantastic job with his impressions of all the vastly different characters.
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