Kurt Anderson (1)
Author of How to Back Up a Trailer: ...and 101 Other Things Every Real Guy Should Know
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Instead, we get endless pages of set-up and narration of an illegal (and frankly, stupid) card game and its two players. We get to know far too many characters, including the unlikable Frankie, who set up the stupid card game, the ship's captain, the bartender, the other, smaller ship's captain, the waitress, the unloved little adopted girl... we get to know all their innermost—and mostly banal—thoughts, hopes, dreams, and their past. We also get to watch virtually every single one of them make the stupidest decisions possible. I can't even go into them all here, because it's simply not worth it, but trust me, you'll understand if you're unlucky enough to read this book.
We're also treated to some incredibly awful thoughts from the attacking creature as well.
In between, we get the odd, reasonably well written scenes of monster attacks.
This is obviously a book by an author more interested in writing a high stakes character driven novel about mostly unlikable people either directly or indirectly involved in a card game, then bolted on a Jaws-like plot to up the stakes.
Along the way, it's also obvious he doesn't know how to ultimately have his hero defeat the big bad, so he basically relies on luck and limps it to the end.
Not the worst I've read, but not even close to the best.… (more)