Bad Glass

Sep 24, 2012 Donna rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

BAD GLASS is something different. In a good way. It's part horror, part apocalyptic, part science fiction and fantasy, hitting on every thread that each of those genres can unwind. I had moments reading this book that actually made my stomach churn. Of course I was eating lunch at the time and vomiting all over the lunch room table at a place I've worked at less than a week would certainly leave an impression. Not a good one. I really like where I work so I breathed through it.

In terms of charac...more BAD GLASS is something different. In a good way. It's part horror, part apocalyptic, part science fiction and fantasy, hitting on every thread that each of those genres can unwind. I had moments reading this book that actually made my stomach churn. Of course I was eating lunch at the time and vomiting all over the lunch room table at a place I've worked at less than a week would certainly leave an impression. Not a good one. I really like where I work so I breathed through it.

In terms of character I felt it was a little thin. I didn't really have any motivation to care about any of the characters and when things really started to happen I felt more like I was watching the news than I was invested in reading a novel. The emphasis of the story was on Spokane. It was the antagonist here, as the blurb says, hunting them. Literally. I LOVED Spokane and I talk about it as if it were a fleshy type of character. It was the most dynamic thing here, morphing itself to engulf the more static characters.

Taylor was your typical hard ass, stand-offish girl that leads by example. Not unlikable but she wasn't anything I warmed to. Then her character took a major shift towards the end and I don't think it quite fit. It was too out of character and felt more like a contrivance to catapult the story forward than anything else. I didn't mind per se because I was still interested in the story but it was a point of contention. I'm not a fan of characters deviating for the sake of plot.

Amanda is one character one day and then goes off the deep end the next without much segue, throwing another shock factor into the spokes of the plot. Charlie was endearing, being the youngest of the group. He was the techie, helping the rest of the gang keep in contact with the outside world all the while continuously searching for his parents whom he KNOWS are still in town. Floyd is hung up on the death of his brother, Mac's a clingy dick from the beginning and Dean himself wants to believe he dissolves into the town with the rest of them but I didn't buy it. He's there for less than a week, put through all kinds of shit for the sake of his art but won't simply walk away when things get really bad (and everything will gladly get out of his way to walk and once he gets out of Spokane all the craziness will stop but nooooooooo). He sacrifices his life for Taylor, whom he's known A WEEK but will not return the affection nor even much of a hint that it's reciprocal, because he just can't leave her. No. I don't buy that either.

I don't buy it as much as I don't buy Taylor's character shift. Dean's very presence beyond the first few days felt forced, his reasons for staying insubstantial at best. Eventually it stopped being about his photography and started being about Taylor, again a stand-offish girl that would barely look at him. I'm going to keep driving right past that tag sale and move on to the next one.

Spokane on the other hand was a living, breathing character consuming all the others, eventually literally. The things that happen within the city, whether they just happen to the surroundings or to the people themselves, were so incredibly vivid that I could almost feel all of the panic and worry and wonder at what was going on. From the weird bodily mutations to nature bucking it's own trend, I believed it all. It was the most vivid part of the story. If it weren't such an integral part, if the story focused more on the characters than on the surroundings, I would have lost interest pretty quickly. But I kept reading for Spokane. I wanted to see what the hell was going on with it.

I almost expected the ending to crap out. I don't know why but I was anticipating the whole thing ending up being a dream. It was alluded to. I'll spoil it for you: it's not. Thank god. I would have been so incredibly pissed off I don't know what I would have done. You get an answer but it leaves a lot of whys hanging out there and you still don't REALLY know what's going on by the time the story ends. You have an idea and I think it's enough to satisfy the curiosity that the plot brews but there's definitely room for more.

BAD GLASS is, atmospherically, a great blend of horror and apocalyptic, the latter really just on the edge of the world about to go to hell in a Pinto. There are some truly terrifying moments and the way Gropp wrote all of the changes it really plays with your mind and you won't know what to think about everything that's happening. You'll start to second-guess things and you'll be trying to figure it out right from the moment Dean gets into the city and starts seeing these things first hand. It's light on character development but the city itself is such a huge personality in the book that it'll just overwhelm everything else. Really I don't think there's room for much else in terms of the other characters. And I'm okay with that.(less)

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May 08, 2013 Craig DiLouie rated it 3 of 5 stars

Like haunted house stories? How about a haunted city? In BAD GLASS by Richard E. Gropp, Spokane, Washington has been evacuated by the government and locked down by the military after an epidemic of bizarre occurrences. After several years, Dean Walker, an aspiring photographer, sneaks into the quarantined city in search of fame. He finds that there are still people living in the city and connects with one group. Together, they will face the demons in the city as well as their own. Are the bizarr...more

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Apr 04, 2013 Nona rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: ebook, from-library, horror, read-in-2013, science-fiction

A fairly solid freshman effort, nothing to win too many accolades but enough to make me interested in the author's future efforts. Also, it's just such a relief to read something somewhat apocalyptic that has nothing to do with zombies!

The use of photography turned out to be an interesting device. The narrator is an aspiring photographer, and not only is the subject a strong part of the narrative, chapters are frequently interspersed with textual descriptions of photographs. Apparently the autho...more

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Mar 23, 2013 Tom rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction, sf

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. This is a book worth reading. It inhabits the place somewhere between science fiction and magical fiction, with some horror thrown in. Not much. This is not a blood-and-guts book. The horror here permeates the air and surfaces in unexpected, stunning ways that are more psychologically upsetting than graphic.

Gropp has written a surprisingly and unexpectedly great book. It's set in Spokane. (Note: I love this choice. Not a big city like Seattle or Los Angeles, but a mid-size, out of the way city.)...more

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Feb 19, 2013 Chris rated it 2 of 5 stars

It's my fault. The back cover called out its likeness to Dhalgren (a book I despise) and yet I still picked this book up. And while that certainly didn't help me enjoy this book much, there were other reasons as well, reasons that I find happening more and more in modern fiction.

What mild character growth was introduced was left dangling and ignored in areas. The "concept" of the novel often took center stage and refused to share the spotlight with plot, development and logic. Characters would...more

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Nov 14, 2012 Ubiquitousbastard rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction, horror, squick, scifi

This book is basically 14 without the awesome chemistry between characters, and if everyone involved had listened to Black Veil Brides on repeat for six months, in addition to being already immensely self-centered. The author tries to claim over and over how everyone was at one time such a cohesive unit, like a family, but the only thing they did together was eat and smoke weed. Okay, maybe if you're a stoner that makes sense, but for the average reader, that doesn't make for proof that they wer...more

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Nov 05, 2012 TheBookSmugglers rated it 2 of 5 stars

Originally reviewed on The Book Smugglers

Something's rotten in the state of Washington. More specifically, the city of Spokane has gone bad - disappearances and violent, bizarre acts in the city garner attention in the public eye, and the military has stepped in, walling off Spokane from the rest of the world under constant guard. Even with the military quarantine, news still trickles out from Spokane - rumors of unimaginable, supernatural horror are backed up by nightmarish images that cannot p...more

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Oct 19, 2012 Tim Niland rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2012-reads

The city of Spokane, Washington is locked down by government and military officials after an unknown calamity strikes. No one is allowed in or out as rumors start to fly about strange occurrences that are lighting up underground Internet chat rooms. Dean is a student at the end of his rope and an aspiring photographer, and he sneaks in through the barricade with the idea of making a name for himself by taking candid shots of the mysterious events. Falling in with a group of survivors, he tries t...more

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Sep 01, 2012 Susan rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: couldn-t-get-through

I don't really do horror as a genre, unless you count some of Neil Gaiman's stuff as horror (to be fair, both SANDMAN and AMERICAN GODS had some certain amount of graphic and gruesome things happening) (it's probably more psychological though) buuuut there are a few things that bothered me here.

The first few pages (about 4 on my kindle) are good. Creepy. Intriguing.

Then we slip into the First Person Narrative of Doom. From a college dropout. Who used the tuition money that his dad thought was go...more

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Oct 17, 2012 Wendy Cantu rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: horror

The review of Bad Glass by Richard Gropp appeared first on The Rekindled Reader.

(Note: This reviews is based on an ARC provided by NetGalley)

I’m speechless – and I don’t know if that’s a good or bad thing. Richard Gropp’s Bad Glass was…something. It was repugnantly addictive, but it lacked all the other attributes that make a good book. The characters were flat, boring and unlikable. The plot – I think it was a plot – was bland, uninteresting and, in the end, muddled.

And yet the appalling, grote...more

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Feb 12, 2013 Sue rated it 5 of 5 stars

With Bad Glass, Richard Gropp has created a mesmerizing, disturbing and powerful story. Something very bad is happening in Spokane, Washington and to the people who still call it home. Most seem to have fled the city, and the "authorities" are present, trying to figure out what's happening and why. Dean, a young photojournalist wanna-be, makes his way inside the city, photographing the people, documenting Spokane's ongoing metamorphosis through the detached eye of a camera, hoping to impress his...more

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Dec 14, 2012 Catherine rated it 5 of 5 stars

The first impression of Bad Glass when I first saw the cover was that it was probably another paranormal series with perhaps creatures that resembled zombies and the main character, Dean Walker with his new friends Taylor, Mac, Amanda, Charlie, Devon, Floyd and Danny will miraculously survive this catastrophic event and get their happy ending. But I was wrong; Bad Glass by Ricahrd E. Gropp did not have the same storyline which I thought it would. My impression of this book after reading it was t...more The first impression of Bad Glass when I first saw the cover was that it was probably another paranormal series with perhaps creatures that resembled zombies and the main character, Dean Walker with his new friends Taylor, Mac, Amanda, Charlie, Devon, Floyd and Danny will miraculously survive this catastrophic event and get their happy ending. But I was wrong; Bad Glass by Ricahrd E. Gropp did not have the same storyline which I thought it would. My impression of this book after reading it was that it showed how a normal and ambitious guy like Dean had turned insane as the world changed slowly around him. Bad Glass showed how fragile the human mind is, even the slightest changes to logic will cause the mind to shut down, perhaps some will still continue their live with their pain inside behind a hard, cold exterior outside like Taylor, maybe some will still have normal human relationships with others like Mac and Amanda, some may be desperate to find their loved ones like Charlie, others may continue with their job although the world around them has gone insane like Devon and Danny, others like Floyd may just live on with their lives and think that they’re finally free of their past, of course there would still be people like Dean who would still have the energy to seek out fame. But in the end, it didn't matter; everyone was changed by Spokane, whether it was mentally or physically. Bad Glass showed its readers how we are so dependent on the world's logic, structure and its rules that even the slightest changes will conflict the human mind and eventually people will be driven to insanity or succumb to their fears. On the other hand, it also makes us wonder, what exactly is right or wrong in our world? What is exactly normal, abnormal? What is logic? Who made these things up? There's probably no exactly or certain answers to these questions, after all when the world changes and becomes out of our control all these abstract things ceases to exist and people's true natures are shown. The human no longer functions as what society considers to be normal, instead they function in order to survive and make sense of a new world with logic from their past does not make sense in the world. In Bad Glass at the beginning it was intended that only Spokane was affected by these abnormalities and people could choose to leave, escape back to the world which they were comfortable with. But what happens if there was no escape, would you continue with live and its abnormalities while trying to make sense of this undefinable change? Would you seek death to escape from the craziness? Or would your mind break down before you could even make a decision? The human mind is something that could be as powerful as the mastermind of the world yet any changes to the world that affects it, could convert it into a fragile structure, crushed in the blink of the eye by the world itself. (less)

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Oct 18, 2012 Amanda rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: arc, horror, fantasy, military, standalone, glbtq

Dark fantasy is one of my favored genres, but unfortunately not a ton comes out in it in any given year. So when I saw this title available on NetGalley, I just had to snatch it up. I’m glad I did, because it’s a truly enjoyable read.

The basic plot uses a trope of dark fantasy–a creative outsider comes to a town where bizarre things supposedly happen then starts to document them happening. The twist here is that the creative type is a photographer, so the art form being used is photography. This...more Dark fantasy is one of my favored genres, but unfortunately not a ton comes out in it in any given year. So when I saw this title available on NetGalley, I just had to snatch it up. I’m glad I did, because it’s a truly enjoyable read.

The basic plot uses a trope of dark fantasy–a creative outsider comes to a town where bizarre things supposedly happen then starts to document them happening. The twist here is that the creative type is a photographer, so the art form being used is photography. This was an incredibly refreshing way to approach the topic. Each chapter opens with a description of a shot that Dean will get at some point in that chapter. It’s fascinating foreshadowing, and also Gropp shows real talent in describing photographs of both the fantastical and more ordinary varieties.

It’s also great to see a story centering primarily around 20-somethings. Often literature tends to stick to YA (teens) or jump right over those of us who are in that truly young adult phase of our lives and into 30-somethings. Although the primary focus of the story is what precisely is happening in Spokane, conflicts frequently faced by 20-somethings come up within this framework–what to do for a career, do you give up on your dreams and settle down into a cubicle or not, when and with whom should you settle down, should you settle down at all, when should you respect your parents and their experience and when should you stand up to them, etc…

The main character also is bisexual, while being primarily interested in a woman. It was so awesome to get to see a bi male main character and have it be presented as just a part of who he is and not a big deal at all. Although there is certainly a need and a place for the coming out tales and stories where the character’s sexuality is a central issue, it is also nice to see glbtq characters where that is just one aspect of who they are and is not dwelled upon much. It is just a part of who Dean is.

As for the central plot–what is happening in Spokane–I admit that I hoped for slightly more answers than we ultimately get. Readers looking for nicely tied up endings or even a hint at an answer will be left wanting. I enjoy an ambiguous ending, but I also felt that perhaps the plot could have been a bit clearer. In particular, without giving anything away, I felt that the scenes revolving around the hospital while powerful left me feeling a bit like perhaps even the author doesn’t really know what’s going on in Spokane. Perhaps that is the point, but it did leave me feeling that the plot was not as up to par as the world building and characterization.

Overall, this is a wonderful addition to the dark fantasy genre. Gropp gives us a unique main character and also utilizes writing about photography in a creative manner. I highly recommend it to fans of dark fantasy, particularly 20-somethings and those with an interest in photography.

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Jan 10, 2013 Cayce rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: started-and-stopped

This story has some genuinely creepy scenes. That said, I've never read such immature writing before. It's very amateur and over-written. The first-person perspective destroys the work. The main characters are filled with such unfounded self-importance that it's hard to take. There's absolutely no chemistry between characters, and they and all the dialogue is cliched. And the love interest? Feels like the author has no idea how human relationships are formed. As the work goes on, I'm finding it...more

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Oct 30, 2012 Emily rated it 4 of 5 stars

This tale developed vivid images of a young photographer's documenting of otherworldly happenings in quarantined Spokane as he is transformed from excited observer to unwilling participant. The inexplicable, chilling sights he sees as he becomes inescapably caught up in the forces that engulf the city have the reader gaping in horror and fascination. His unrequited love of a young survivor fighting her own inner demons and who is tied to the city even when it is clearly past time to leave, bring...more

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Feb 12, 2013 Schnaucl rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction, february, glbt, horror, library, read_2013

3.5 stars

This book frequently strongly reminded me of Haunted. The main character goes into a dangerous, screwed up situation seeking fame. It's the possibility of fame and his own naivete that keeps him there despite the horrors he sees. (view spoiler)

The actual explanation for what's happening is interesting but doesn't make a whole lot of sense in that t...more

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Sep 25, 2012 Tami rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: goodreads-giveaways, 2012

I haven't received my copy yet, just received notification that I had won. 9/25/12
Received my copy and hope to start soon. I have 1 other plus my current read in front. 10/5/12
Just started 10/11/12
don't remember what day I finished.

I am not going to give a summary of what happened in the book first, because I am not really sure what happened. I didn't care for the book at all. There didn't seem to be a point or plot or anything really. To give it a fair shake, I do not like apocolyptic type sto...more

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Jan 08, 2013 Kathie rated it 4 of 5 stars

This book is not for the faint of heart. It is intense, frightening and totally weird. My cup of tea. It twists and turns and shocks you, gives you a minute and then smacks you again. I can't possibly say much about it, except that something is going on in the city of Spokane and Dean Walker, aspiring photo-journalist crabs into the city thinking he will make his name taking great freaky photos. But Dean gets enmeshed in the lives of Spokane residents and the bizarre incidents that have occurred...more

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Apr 29, 2013 Justin Steele rated it 3 of 5 stars

Bad Glass is the winner of Del Rey's Suvudu writing contest, and Richard E. Gropp's first novel. The novel is horror, with some science fiction elements. The book's premise was interesting to me as well as some of the author blurbs, especially the Caitlin Kiernan one on the book's cover. The book's blurb is as follows:

Something has happened in Spokane. The military has evacuated the city and locked it down. Even so, disturbing rumors and images seep out, finding their way onto the Internet, spre...more Bad Glass is the winner of Del Rey's Suvudu writing contest, and Richard E. Gropp's first novel. The novel is horror, with some science fiction elements. The book's premise was interesting to me as well as some of the author blurbs, especially the Caitlin Kiernan one on the book's cover. The book's blurb is as follows:

Something has happened in Spokane. The military has evacuated the city and locked it down. Even so, disturbing rumors and images seep out, finding their way onto the Internet, spreading curiosity, skepticism, and panic. For what they show is—or should be—impossible: strange creatures that cannot exist, sudden disappearances that violate the laws of physics, human bodies fused with inanimate objects, trapped yet still half alive. . . .

Dean Walker, an aspiring photographer, sneaks into the quarantined city in search of fame. What he finds will change him in unimaginable ways. Hooking up with a group of outcasts led by a beautiful young woman named Taylor, Dean embarks on a journey into the heart of a mystery whose philosophical implications are as terrifying as its physical manifestations. Even as he falls in love with Taylor—a woman as damaged and seductive as the city itself—his already tenuous hold on reality starts to come loose. Or perhaps it is Spokane’s grip on the world that is coming undone.

Now, caught up in a web of interlacing secrets and betrayals, Dean, Taylor, and their friends must make their way through this ever-shifting maze of a city, a city that is actively hunting them down, herding them toward a shocking destiny.

I was rather intrigued by the whole premise, and one of the author's blurbs compared the book to the show LOST. I admit to having had a love/hate relationship with that show, as the first few seasons had my full attention, but the show later wilted for me and ended on a totally unsatisfactory note.

When it comes to Bad Glass, I have conflicting feelings. On one hand I really dig the premise, and the several mysteries that come up throughout the book kept me turning the pages. On the other hand, the books flaws keep me from lavishing the praise. Most of the characters are dull and uninspired. The narrator, Dean, is whiny, often to the point of annoying. The horrors themselves can be pretty solid, but at times the author is too descriptive. There is no subtlety in his approach to each horrifying encounter, and the over descriptiveness can be a bit of a dread killer for me. There was also one moment in the book, a graphic homosexual sex scene featuring the protagonist (who is chasing after a girl the entire book) that seemed absurdly out of place. It was jarring, and felt like it was added in simply to give a jolt to readers.

The biggest flaw with the novel, and in my opinion the trait it most shares with the show LOST, is that the end is quite a let down. I can really dig a story, especially horror, that's left open ended, but when it's a novel length work as opposed to a short story or novella, I, like many readers, like to have a bit more payoff. By looking at other reviews it seems this shortcoming of the novel is one that many readers make note of, but by the end of the novel the majority of mysteries are left unanswered. Ending the book in such a manner will be the cause of much frustration by readers.

While I enjoyed reading about the frayed reality of the fictional Spokane, I hate to say that I read on not out of any investment in the characters, but simply because I wanted to see how these many mysteries unraveled. In that regard, I was disappointed. Maybe Gropp will revisit his Spokane, or one of the other places mentioned at the end of the novel. I may even check it out, but hopefully he will learn from the shortcomings of his first book, because as evident in this one he sure didn't learn a thing from LOST.

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May 07, 2013 Katherine rated it 3 of 5 stars

Interesting plot, chilling ending. Personally, I found a lot of the gratuitous sex (well, it was one scene, I guess) and swearing (which was prevalent throughout) quasi off-putting. Obviously not enough for me to actually finish the story, but it made everything less enjoyable. The ending made no sense, and I was left feeling unsettled. I assume that this was the point, so I think the book did a great job at evoking emotion and manipulating the element of suspense. However, none of the suspense...more

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Jan 30, 2013 Alex Telander rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: books-read-in-2012

There’s something wrong with Spokane, Washington. Seriously wrong. The military has formed a protective cordon around the extreme outskirts of the city, not letting anyone in and anyone out. Strange things have started happening on the inside, people disappearing, unusual creatures being seen, as well as realities that just cannot be. But no new is getting out, and no one has any clue what is really going on.

Dean Walker has one last chance to pursue his passion and make it as a photographer, bef...more

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Dec 21, 2012 Erin rated it 2 of 5 stars

Oh mah gah. I admit I read this book because it has a cool premise, a cool cover, and a blurb from Caitlin Kiernan, one of my favorite writers. And for a while I thought, maybe he's writing all of these characters in the most annoying way possible for a reason, and he's going to pull some narrative trick at the end to make it all better! But, since this book is compared to the TV show Lost, I can't help but make the same comparison: you get to the end and basically say seriously? What just happe...more

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Nov 28, 2012 Stephanie rated it 4 of 5 stars

Although there are some minor problems with Bad Glass, overall it was a great read. Some of the minor characters were extremely flat and didn’t seem to have a main purpose in the overall picture for the novel, but in contrast the main characters were well written and easy to care about. For me this novel seemed like a great melding of horror and suspense with a splash of a post-apocalyptic world just outside of the real world. If there were any scenes that began to lag, Gropp did an amazing job...more

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Sep 20, 2012 Sandy Cox rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: arcs

Dean is stuck in a rut. He hates his major, but father won't pay for college if he becomes a photography major. Instead Dean takes the last of his tuition money and heads for Spokane, Washington, a city under quarantine.

His goal is to sneak into the city to document it's slow decline, but Dean has no idea what awaits him. He doesn't know about the madness that has consumed the population and that there's no way of escaping it....

So, I have discovered that it's not wise for me to read too much in...more

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Sep 29, 2012 Margaret rated it 5 of 5 stars

I don't normally write reviews. But this book...this book is making me write one. Creepy, atmospheric and chilling. Gropp's debut novel is refreshing and I hope to read more from him. I am not overly fond of first person narratives, but I'm learning to like them more and more. I am not a fan of apocalyptic stories, but I found myself enjoying this one. In fact I rather hate them. I read this...by candlelight while snowed in (I'm lucky, I got to read this early). Not sure if reading it in the dar...more

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Dec 30, 2012 Karen Avila rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery-thrillers, fiction, fantasy

It started with a good premise but the story focused more on the description of the city than the actual mystery behind it and it just got confusing. Most of the descriptions of the city reminded me of the movie Silent Hill. I could picture them but after awhile it got boring. I didn't understand why some people would stay behind in Spokane if they could voluntarily leave the city. It was also dumb for Dean to sneak into the city and not uncover the mystery behind it. I'm not sure if I even beli...more

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Dec 18, 2012 Heather rated it 4 of 5 stars

Crazy freaky stuff is happening in Spokane, WA. The city has been evacuated and only a few stragglers and the military remain. The protaganist of Bad Glass breaks into this exceedingly disturbing and dangerous landscape. The best way to describe the weirdness is some kind of warp in physics, but that doesn't cover it.
This book is effectively creepy and disorienting. I thought it was going to devolve into romantic shenanigans, but it didn't turn out that way. Nice character development and a pre...more

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Mar 13, 2013 Patrick Todoroff rated it 2 of 5 stars

Truly a post-modern spec fiction novel. Solid writing captures damaged, confused characters struggling to make sense of bizarre, para-normal phenomenon in Spokane. More grotesque horror than sci-fi, there is no answer, no resolution, no stability - just a seeping dread at the loss of meaning and trust as even fundamental laws of physics decay.

It left me with a deep sorrow for the characters and the author.

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Jan 25, 2013 Marie bishop rated it 3 of 5 stars

when I first started reading this book I was absolutely drawn into the story, the writing is good, great character s and believable surroundings, apart from the,weird parts, but now I have finished I am left feeling, well disappointed, it ended too odd, made no sense and to be frank let the rest of a great book down, I would have given it higher but for me the end was too confusing.

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Apr 15, 2013 Jeanne rated it 2 of 5 stars

I didn't know what to expect from this book. Initially it grabbed my attention with the description of the photographs. The subjects were so unbelievable I had to continue. Good writing overall, but it did get stale. The attachment that I had to the character drove me on. Very unsatisfied with the ending.

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