A review by dmackinn
Gundog by Gary Whitta

2.0

Whitta should stick to writing screenplays. Some interesting ideas here but the prose reads as though it was written by an adolescent. The story is dialog heavy, which is not necessarily a bad thing but you never get a good feeling for what makes this world unique. Your left to fill in the gaps with your own mental visualizations derived from past post-apocalyptic sci-fi. Some of the choices made seem contrived just to fill in plot-gaps. When the story finally gets moving along if feels like we spend too short of an amount of time in that portion of the story to sprint towards the end. There are story issues that are nagging and it would have been more enjoyable if those had been addressed during editing. Overall an enjoyable, fast-paced, easy read but I can't get over the feeling that it was a screenplay that was converted to a book for the purposes of being the basis for a series of films.