Friday, November 4, 2011

Black Light (Melton, 2011)




























Black Light by Patrick Melton, Marcus Dunstan, & Stephen Romano
3/5 Could it be my ADHD? I felt the noir-ish sentences dragged on and half of the analogies didn't make any sense to me even after rereading them multiple times. The prose at times seem a little redundant, especially when Buck was fighting the ghosts in his stomach. That being said, I do like the storyline and the concept. I can also see why they choose this medium as their output. There would be way too much CGI in a movie version of this and lots of it happens inside of the main character's body.
I liked the book overall, just wish they had cut back on the repetitiveness of pulling the ghosts and refined the analogies more.

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Wolf Hunt (Strand, 2011)































4/5 A blast of a read, couldn't put this one down. That is actually saying a lot considering I'm basically ADHD. I'm in love with Jeff Strand's dialogue. Both Wolf Hunt and Pressure, the dialogue and prose almost read like a screenplay, not saying that they should or should not be screenplays. Just in the way that i didn't perceive any irritating filler. (Not like Black Light (Melton, Dunstan, Romano, 2011) who actually are screenwriters)