Mr McCammon wrote many very different books and I loved several of them. But choosing this one was a mistake on my part. Despite plenty of action I found it quite boring and I ended up skipping whole paragraphs in order to finish it. Let me explain why.
First 40% of book is essentially an introduction familiarizing reader with the place and with multiple characters. There are long parts describing in a big detail a layout of two small towns separated by the river and, more importantly, by demographics of inhabitants. I could not keep track of all the streets and kept asking myself why, if they were supposed to be so important, not to simply draw a map? Then I got introduced to many protagonists several of them the members of two competing youth gangs; the kids of Mexican origin and white kids. Again, I got lost in who is who and the problems of the young people and other characters felt like “carbon –copied“ from other books. Then, finally, aliens invade and there are several bloody and gory encounters between them and local human population. The first one or two of them were interesting but repeated for the 10-th and 20-th time in different variations they became boring (and made me skipping paragraph again). In the last 10% of the book the new things start happening but by then I was so tired I could not get involved in any of the action. On top of that there are several annoying inconsistencies in psychological makeup and in behavior of both; humans and aliens.
It was just a two star reading experience for me but I believe this book may be much more appealing to the fans of gory horror and/or zombies’-like scenes. As for me, I do not give up on this author, I just need to choose other book of his (the one that is more like “Boys Live”, “Gone South”, “Speaks the Nightbird” or even “Mystery Walk”).
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