Basically this is fan fiction at its greatest!
It seems that IRW took the brilliant idea formed by JAK in Origin and then
added his own fantastic spin of humour and horror, a few of his own characters,
mixed them up, put them in a new hell and span them out again.
Fast, fun, and full of laughs, this is one that Konrath fans
won't want to miss - made all the more interesting by Iain Rob Wright's British
touches. Those that have read Origin or
The Final Winter will quickly fall in love with this book because the
characters are just as you remember them to be.
Each main character is well formed but flawed and you can
see early on how Bub will get to them, only IRW/JAK manage to make a few good
twists and surprises too. However, the parting shot from Andy annoyed the hell
out of me! (no spoilers)
The setting of a monster zoo/prison really allowed both
authors to run wild with their imaginations and whoever thought up Mu the
talking banana was genius. IRW must have had a riot writing this.
However, there were some “bad” points for me, I did think it
had a rushed ending of sorts, nothing was finalized (IMO), which I suppose
leaves it open for a sequel but I think that’s a little cheeky of both authors.
In addition, I was really disappointed to get to 52% and
have it end – the last part is the original story from IRW without JAK input.
Which is wonderful in of itself but I did feel cheated and which runoffthemill
reader is really is going to read the same story twice in a row??
Also, I wish we had more back story on Wolfie as it was such
a sad story.
I think both authors could have made this into a much longer
book with more expansion of the “monsters/prisoners” history, the secret
society could have had more back story, as could the new characters.
All that said, I do hope there is a sequel!
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