Subhuman: Unit 51
A series by Michael McBride
Narrated by Neil Hellegers
If you like movie titles like Alien: AVP, The Thing, The Colony and books from your high school biology and history and geography classes? Well, this book in a nutshell is for you! There's a team on the furthest end of the world, looking at bones dubbed "eggheads". Their skulls are massive, their teeth are canine and their visages are gruesome. So what do these adventurers do? They freaking wake the things up! #element-9c01338d-4a46-460a-86eb-c19d735c761a .waddons-blog-image.hideImage { display: none;}
Subhuman: Unit 51, by
Michael McBride,
is about a team recruited to research a lost civilization, surrounded by a sort of necropolis. Haunting, ancient and cursed, the team discover the intelligence of such a savage race can be bad for your health. Then there's the blood...
I have to admit, when I began reading this book, I was bored outta my freaking skull! Probably because my head isn't as large as the skulls of these monsters. The voice talent of Neil Hellegers, to me, was a huge mistake. His voice was equivalent to a windmill- no lie! It was monotonous and the book was filled with pregnant pauses in his reading. He made it terribly easy for me to phase out during all the explanatory ties of the book. None of it was interesting to me, thanks to the stodgy info-dump that took like all of part one of the book!. Not until they opened up Pandora's box and woke the monsters.
To me, the book was like reading AVP, but they weren't in a maze, they were in a research station in the Antarctic. Which brought me the impression of The Thing, Except the things weren't absorbing the living, they were attacking and killing/eating or the dead or changing them, like in The Colony. It just made me thing of so many other movies, that it didn't feel original.And the characters, as intelligent as they were really didn't make educated decisions. Then if they did, they vanished into the air ducts- like in Alien 3!! It didn't impress me. Sorry.
Maybe you'll like it. I probably won't be purchasing the rest of the series. The shift from extreme science fiction to horror was lopsided to me. It wasn't balanced and the monster- I'm sorry, xenomorph wasn't original. I'm off to the next read.
Cheers! Subhuman: Unit 51
Michael McBride
Published by Tantor Audio, October 2017
Running Time: 11 hours, 5 minutes
Narrated by Neil Hellegers
If you like movie titles like Alien: AVP, The Thing, The Colony and books from your high school biology and history and geography classes? Well, this book in a nutshell is for you! There's a team on the furthest end of the world, looking at bones dubbed "eggheads". Their skulls are massive, their teeth are canine and their visages are gruesome. So what do these adventurers do? They freaking wake the things up! #element-9c01338d-4a46-460a-86eb-c19d735c761a .waddons-blog-image.hideImage { display: none;}
Subhuman: Unit 51, by
Michael McBride,
is about a team recruited to research a lost civilization, surrounded by a sort of necropolis. Haunting, ancient and cursed, the team discover the intelligence of such a savage race can be bad for your health. Then there's the blood...I have to admit, when I began reading this book, I was bored outta my freaking skull! Probably because my head isn't as large as the skulls of these monsters. The voice talent of Neil Hellegers, to me, was a huge mistake. His voice was equivalent to a windmill- no lie! It was monotonous and the book was filled with pregnant pauses in his reading. He made it terribly easy for me to phase out during all the explanatory ties of the book. None of it was interesting to me, thanks to the stodgy info-dump that took like all of part one of the book!. Not until they opened up Pandora's box and woke the monsters.
To me, the book was like reading AVP, but they weren't in a maze, they were in a research station in the Antarctic. Which brought me the impression of The Thing, Except the things weren't absorbing the living, they were attacking and killing/eating or the dead or changing them, like in The Colony. It just made me thing of so many other movies, that it didn't feel original.And the characters, as intelligent as they were really didn't make educated decisions. Then if they did, they vanished into the air ducts- like in Alien 3!! It didn't impress me. Sorry.
Maybe you'll like it. I probably won't be purchasing the rest of the series. The shift from extreme science fiction to horror was lopsided to me. It wasn't balanced and the monster- I'm sorry, xenomorph wasn't original. I'm off to the next read.
Cheers! Subhuman: Unit 51
Michael McBride
Published by Tantor Audio, October 2017
Running Time: 11 hours, 5 minutes
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