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A review by glimnore
World's End by Mark Chadbourn
3.0
You know, it took me like eight months since I started reading this book to finish it. I stopped roughly half-way at some point and was all like: "Oh gawd, its going to be Dawnthief all over again." Well I continued after a while. And lo and behold, it was in fact like Dawnthief all over again. At least I finished this one....
Characters (3/5)
Shavi is the winning grace of this novel. Because he is freaking cool. He isn't even the main character and his presence doesn't exist until half-way through the book. Veitch started off as interesting and then became more of an annoyance. Tom was always an annoyance. Laura....why the hell hasn't her character developed, even after all of the sh*t she had to go through?!?! WTF.
Oh and Ruth. Lol. Don't even get me started on Ruth.
But then there is Church. The gary stu of this book. Of course his life can't all be perfect! He must have a dark and debilitating past! (IN ORDER TO BECOME THE HERO GOTHAM NEEDS!) No. No I say. Church 'finds' an 'inner hero' of sorts. And yet, it doesn't do anything of importance.
World (3/5)
I see what Chadbourn did here. Its almost Lovecraftian, the descriptions/lack thereof regarding the Fomori. Underline almost. Nothing is ever fully described or detailed. The mythos is so incredibly verbose and complex (Which I do applaud!) but the fun of it all gets lost in random narration, which is overly tedious for me to care about when all I want is for the plot to progress.
Prose (2/5)
I put this book down the first time because it was heady, intense and overly saturated with meaningless descriptions that overloaded the brain. I picked it up. And only then after re familiarizing myself with the way Chadbourn goes about his life did I manage to pick up my reading speed with this novel. Painfully slow, but I managed to chunk through the viscous swamp of adjectives.
Pacing (2/5)
It could have been better. It should have been better. If the pacing was better than the book could have been much better. But it wasn't.
Plot (3/5)
There was a line once uttered through in the novel. A literary device of great renown, one I find incredibly fascinating. "Deus ex Machina", which pretty much sums up all the solutions. The premise was interesting, I'll give him that. But I felt as if Chadbourn failed to deliver.
All in all....
3+3+2+3+2=13/25 = .52*5 = 2.6
Which rounds to 3....
And yet, I'll be giving the second one a go.
Characters (3/5)
Shavi is the winning grace of this novel. Because he is freaking cool. He isn't even the main character and his presence doesn't exist until half-way through the book. Veitch started off as interesting and then became more of an annoyance. Tom was always an annoyance. Laura....why the hell hasn't her character developed, even after all of the sh*t she had to go through?!?! WTF.
Oh and Ruth. Lol. Don't even get me started on Ruth.
But then there is Church. The gary stu of this book. Of course his life can't all be perfect! He must have a dark and debilitating past! (IN ORDER TO BECOME THE HERO GOTHAM NEEDS!) No. No I say. Church 'finds' an 'inner hero' of sorts. And yet, it doesn't do anything of importance.
World (3/5)
I see what Chadbourn did here. Its almost Lovecraftian, the descriptions/lack thereof regarding the Fomori. Underline almost. Nothing is ever fully described or detailed. The mythos is so incredibly verbose and complex (Which I do applaud!) but the fun of it all gets lost in random narration, which is overly tedious for me to care about when all I want is for the plot to progress.
Prose (2/5)
I put this book down the first time because it was heady, intense and overly saturated with meaningless descriptions that overloaded the brain. I picked it up. And only then after re familiarizing myself with the way Chadbourn goes about his life did I manage to pick up my reading speed with this novel. Painfully slow, but I managed to chunk through the viscous swamp of adjectives.
Pacing (2/5)
It could have been better. It should have been better. If the pacing was better than the book could have been much better. But it wasn't.
Plot (3/5)
There was a line once uttered through in the novel. A literary device of great renown, one I find incredibly fascinating. "Deus ex Machina", which pretty much sums up all the solutions. The premise was interesting, I'll give him that. But I felt as if Chadbourn failed to deliver.
All in all....
3+3+2+3+2=13/25 = .52*5 = 2.6
Which rounds to 3....
And yet, I'll be giving the second one a go.