No writers intentionally writes something that a reviewer doesn’t like, and no fan of that writer ever wants to see a review that is not favourable to that writer. Unfortunately this will happen to every writer at some point and so it was with this review by Richard Dansky of this novella:
Everything about the novella feels off-hand and rushed. The over-the-top character names give the distinct sense that they were created for the action figures first and the prose second; Mongroid and Venal Atomica in particular sound like musicians who failed tryouts for GWAR. As for the narrative, it drops loose ends everwhere and regards character motivation as optional. What could have been a magnificent portrait of monstrous love at the heart of a unique setting instead comes across as paint-by-numbers, checking off the boxes that readers expected from Barker in the heady early days of Books of Blood.
Read his full review here.
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