“This story has a fairly unsympathetic main character. When he’s not busy sniveling, throwing tantrums, feeling sorry for himself, cringing in embarrassment, boggling in astonishment and grappling way too long with relatively simple concepts; protagonist Monson Grey falls down a lot and discovers he is the savior of all existence (or something like that. It’s hard to keep track since the tedious long-windedness of the storytelling causes one’s attention to drift frequently). It is also unfortunate that this author seems to think it is OK to swipe concepts from other fictional works as long as he has his characters cite those works by name.
I will finish this book since the central concept is an interesting one, despite all the clutter surrounding it. This author could definitely become much better by cleaning things up and streamlining his concepts, which do glimmer through with clear inventiveness here and there. And having a much less whiney hero wouldn’t hurt either.”
ZZzzzizzy via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
11/13/09