A review by hans_cosy_corner
Timberdark by Darren Charlton
1.0
This feels like a book where the author will feel incredibly meta and intelligent for making the true threat modernism in a book about zombies, but actually it was boring and patronising.
“Don’t be mistaken, Peter. We were the ones half asleep. We were the ones in a torpor. We were the zombies”
I get it, jobs are boring and you daydream and we fill our homes and lives with things we don’t really need and would love to return to nature. When you make it the main theme of your book with such a heavy hand though it just feels quite a bit like ‘old man yells at cloud’
The first book was thrilling. I couldn’t put it down, it was sweet and heartbreaking and had my breath caught in the life or death moments. This one was boring, and more confusing in parts, and I clocked what was happening about a third of the way through with the main theme of the book and rolled my eyes.
I hate miscommunication as a trope, and it was the main issue in this one. Just talk to each other!
Also the ending was awful. It felt like the author realised he needed something to make us sad so just threw it in for good measure, so it felt cheap and unnecessary.
“Don’t be mistaken, Peter. We were the ones half asleep. We were the ones in a torpor. We were the zombies”
I get it, jobs are boring and you daydream and we fill our homes and lives with things we don’t really need and would love to return to nature. When you make it the main theme of your book with such a heavy hand though it just feels quite a bit like ‘old man yells at cloud’
The first book was thrilling. I couldn’t put it down, it was sweet and heartbreaking and had my breath caught in the life or death moments. This one was boring, and more confusing in parts, and I clocked what was happening about a third of the way through with the main theme of the book and rolled my eyes.
I hate miscommunication as a trope, and it was the main issue in this one. Just talk to each other!
Also the ending was awful. It felt like the author realised he needed something to make us sad so just threw it in for good measure, so it felt cheap and unnecessary.