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Rot and Ruin (Benny Imura, #1)
by Jonathan Maberry (Goodreads Author)
by Jonathan Maberry (Goodreads Author)
JennyJen's review
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Oct 27, 12
bookshelves: abandoned, and-it-all-falls-down, ayfkm, blah, books-i-want-to-drop-kick, booooring, braaaaiiins, disappointing, dnf, expected-so-much-more, eye-strain-from-copious-rolling, facepalm, i-m-over-it, lackluster-series-start, male-pov, meh, no-soup-for-you, not-my-cup-of-tea, oy, potential-down-the-shitter, read-2012, somebody-slap-that-protagonist-pls, stoopit, wanna-kick-hero-in-the-balls, wtf, young-adult, zombies, mc-sucks-ass, reviewed
Recommended to JennyJen by:
Sadly, myself.
Recommended for:
A therapist. Maybe they could wade through all the "feelings" and bro love.
Read on October 26, 2012
AND YOU CALL YOURSELF A ZOMBIE BOOK?
HOLY DUMB SHIT, BATMAN.
**Mild spoils marked.
For the record, I read half of this book. Zombies appeared twice. Two times. Two measly times for maybe one boring, emotionless minute each of those times. I mean, seriously, can't I get one Zombie Happy Meal in half a damn zombie book?
What am I saying? I'm blaspheming on behalf of zombie lovers everywhere. This isn't a zombie book, so much as it's a tale of two boring-ass brothers, one of which is an annoying, vapid, fucktwat with no common sense. This is supposed to be the story of his journey to manhood, but it was a flat, wordy pretentious mess. Pretentious, because the older brother just talked and talked and talked and talked and (I shit you not) talked some more. Chapters would go by and this dude would be telling zombie tales to his baby bro. Back-to-back-without-pause boring-ass zombie tales! For, like, a chapter or two at a time. We'd hear all this fucking nonsense about how meaningful all the zombie shit was, but that's all it was - TALES. Long, drawn out, pretentious tales. And they weren't meaningful. The dude would say they were and he'd have "thoughtful" and "meaningful" pauses, but it was just a bunch of long, boring tales. FML. HARD.
I might come back to this review to spew some more, but right now, I need a frikkin nap. Suffice to say that if you can't excite a zombie lover once in 50% of a zombie frikkin' novel, then maybe you shouldn't be writing zombie frikkin' novels OR the cover should have two teens holding hands or some other dumb shit like that.
Spoilerish, but not much. --> (view spoiler) Thankfully, I jumped ship just in time to avoid it. I'd rather be eaten by zombies. -_-
This cover:
is trickery.
For more of my reviews, check out my blog:
HOLY DUMB SHIT, BATMAN.
**Mild spoils marked.
For the record, I read half of this book. Zombies appeared twice. Two times. Two measly times for maybe one boring, emotionless minute each of those times. I mean, seriously, can't I get one Zombie Happy Meal in half a damn zombie book?
What am I saying? I'm blaspheming on behalf of zombie lovers everywhere. This isn't a zombie book, so much as it's a tale of two boring-ass brothers, one of which is an annoying, vapid, fucktwat with no common sense. This is supposed to be the story of his journey to manhood, but it was a flat, wordy pretentious mess. Pretentious, because the older brother just talked and talked and talked and talked and (I shit you not) talked some more. Chapters would go by and this dude would be telling zombie tales to his baby bro. Back-to-back-without-pause boring-ass zombie tales! For, like, a chapter or two at a time. We'd hear all this fucking nonsense about how meaningful all the zombie shit was, but that's all it was - TALES. Long, drawn out, pretentious tales. And they weren't meaningful. The dude would say they were and he'd have "thoughtful" and "meaningful" pauses, but it was just a bunch of long, boring tales. FML. HARD.
I might come back to this review to spew some more, but right now, I need a frikkin nap. Suffice to say that if you can't excite a zombie lover once in 50% of a zombie frikkin' novel, then maybe you shouldn't be writing zombie frikkin' novels OR the cover should have two teens holding hands or some other dumb shit like that.
Spoilerish, but not much. --> (view spoiler) Thankfully, I jumped ship just in time to avoid it. I'd rather be eaten by zombies. -_-
This cover:
is trickery.For more of my reviews, check out my blog:
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Reading Progress
| 10/26/2012 |
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10.0% | "Hm. Interesting concept, but this better bring the ruckus, because mama's patience has been running thin with mediocre books lately." | |
| 10/26/2012 |
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17.0% | "So far, so boring." 4 comments | |
| 10/26/2012 |
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32.0% | "OMG. Ffs, are there any zombies in this book? Wtf." | |
| 10/26/2012 |
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41.0% | "This is infuriating. This could be so good. I just don't think it'll happen." | |
| 10/26/2012 |
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48.0% | "I'm about to DNF this, but the MC is in a precarious situation and I'm wishing fervently for his horrific death." |
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Yikes. Your not having good luck are ya?:/
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I'm torn. Not really wanting to read YA, but everyone is raving about these two. Then again, all the ones I hated recently were recs, too. Guess I have to buck up and cross my fingers. Woe.
Aurelija The Golden aka Mary Maundrell wrote: "wish luck.To your next victim"
>_< I've gotten tougher on books lately. If I keep schlepping through shit books, I'll never get through my mountainess to-read list.
JennyJen wrote: "Maybe Maybe
I'm torn. Not really wanting to read YA, but everyone is raving about these two. Then again, all the one..."
I was bored with Something Strange and Deadly, just couldn't get into it. Hope you have better luck with it..
I can't find satisfaction I need from the books I read right now. Makes me wanna scream when I think about finishing them.. :/
It's been such a rough week after the gloriousness of Fever. I keep throwing myself into book after book, because if I don't, Ima lose my will to read for a while and probably go into a tv watching frenzy.
Maybe we should read that stupid group read. Maybe we'll end up liking it, if we stop fighting it. ^_^
JennyJen wrote: "It's been such a rough week after the gloriousness of Fever. I keep throwing myself into book after book, because if I don't, Ima lose my will to read for a while and probably go into a tv watching..."my feelings exactly!
I don't it will be bad read, not very bad at least.
I'm just not it the mood for it yet.
I'm killing myself with fifty at the moment.
Aurelija The Golden aka Mary Maundrell wrote: "JennyJen wrote: "It's been such a rough week after the gloriousness of Fever. I keep throwing myself into book after book, because if I don't, Ima lose my will to read for a while and probably go i..."Please do not tarnish our friendship by bringing up fifty again. I do not trust my constraint.
Moving on.
Let's check out our shelves and find something mutual and buddy read. We just have to get through the next 3 days until Iced. It is almost upon us. ^_^ ^_^ ^_^
I was thinking about buying this but I think I will skip it now. Awesome review, you are freakin hilarious!
