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a_reader_is_me2011-03-29 11:45 am
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Book post: Voodoo Inferno by Doug Thurston
Title: Voodoo Inferno
Author: Doug Thurston
Number of pages: n/a (ebook)
Genre: thriller
Book Number/Goal: 12/50
My Rating: 3/5
Review: An amnesic Iraq War veteran goes to New Orleans trying to piece together the puzzle of his past and finds himself in a turmoil of mysterious and confusing events.
Good points:
- most of the characters are modernized Voudou Loa, demons and such, and it's a lot of fun, like a game, to encounter every familiar name or description and figure out who is that.
- same for historical landmarks, cultural events and rituals
- dreamlike and confusing atmosphere, everything is fluid, different voices interrupt each other, characters are jerked all around space/time
Bad points:
- an overload of phonetically spelled dialect speech - unreadable and annoying like hell!!
- characters are neither likable nor inspire any feelings whatsoever
- plot is not particularly intriguing, in spite of all the mysteries, and seems to exist only to implement the main idea explained in the end (together with unnecessary moralizing)
Offtopic:
- http://www.authonomy.com (that's where the book resides, I came across it through a google search for a certain name) looks interesting! It's a writing/reading/publishing community which allows the users to upload their novels and allegedly helps with publishing them if there's enough interest.
Author: Doug Thurston
Number of pages: n/a (ebook)
Genre: thriller
Book Number/Goal: 12/50
My Rating: 3/5
Review: An amnesic Iraq War veteran goes to New Orleans trying to piece together the puzzle of his past and finds himself in a turmoil of mysterious and confusing events.
Good points:
- most of the characters are modernized Voudou Loa, demons and such, and it's a lot of fun, like a game, to encounter every familiar name or description and figure out who is that.
- same for historical landmarks, cultural events and rituals
- dreamlike and confusing atmosphere, everything is fluid, different voices interrupt each other, characters are jerked all around space/time
Bad points:
- an overload of phonetically spelled dialect speech - unreadable and annoying like hell!!
- characters are neither likable nor inspire any feelings whatsoever
- plot is not particularly intriguing, in spite of all the mysteries, and seems to exist only to implement the main idea explained in the end (together with unnecessary moralizing)
Offtopic:
- http://www.authonomy.com (that's where the book resides, I came across it through a google search for a certain name) looks interesting! It's a writing/reading/publishing community which allows the users to upload their novels and allegedly helps with publishing them if there's enough interest.