The premise for this story was a draw since I am a fan of the Apocalyptic genre. Unfortunately it was quite a let down. There are three reasons for my low rating. The first is the quality of writing...I quickly grew weary of every character having to do something before speaking. "Norman scratched his head and said..." "Zero ran her hands through her hair and said..." "Pops licked his lips and said.." In fact, there was so much lip licking that I wanted to send everyone some chapstick. Secondly, there were too many occurrences that stretched the bounds of credibility or were nonsensical. Why did the collectors kill 20,000 people in Seattle yet capture a handful of others and put them in a room hoping they would kill themselves? Upon getting the opportunity to speak to an ex-collector, no one thinks to ask her questions about their operation specifics..how they knew people had killed themselves, where they obtained food, fuel for helicopters and airplanes,how they were organized. Too many other examples to list. The last reason for the low rating is the lack of story cohesion. Bottom line: Something was making people kill themselves. That something was destroyed. Yet we are given no answers or even hints as to the nature, background, purpose of this "something." And no one in the story seems the least bit curious. I don't expect to be spoon fed answers, I'm fine with open endings which allow the reader to draw their own conclusions. But in this case, the author gave us nothing at all to work with..I suspect this is why many readers like myself found the story, which held promise, to be ultimately so unsatisfying. I was really disappointed in this book. I read the back cover and expected a really amazing story. The book isn't very long, a little shy of three hundred pages, but it looked intriguing. The story is about the end of days basically. People are committing suicide and cloaked individuals are collecting the bodies of the dead. Most of the population has died off and only a few remain. This seemed like a great tale but it left me feeling clueless in some areas.It felt like there were a few continuity issues. The main character Norman and supporting character Pops set out to Seattle from Florida in a plane in order to find a scientist who might have a cure for what is making people commit suicide. They eventually lose the plane and end up in Kansas, where they pick up another straggler and a car. They never say how the car gets enough gas to go from Kansas to Utah. The reader is basically to assume that that problem gets taken care of. Is there gas in this future? Did they siphon? Did they have extra gas cans for the trip? Unless I missed it, they never covered it. Then, perhaps the writer got bored, but Pops ends up getting killed, and the other supporting character gets taken away, never to return until close to the end. It felt like a senseless and sudden death. The ending didn't sit well with me. I felt like very little was answered and it bordered on being silly. The job of any writer is to make the story believeable, no matter what genre it falls under. I didn't believe the ending, because I honestly thought it could have been better and a little more indepth. It was vague. All in all, this was not an impressive story to me. It felt very rushed and could have had a little more substance added to it.
What do You think about I Predatori Del Suicidio (2010)?
"The Happening" meets "Mad Max"--just when you think there aren't any new ideas out there
—anasua7777
Author's first book. Good story, but the closure was a bit forced.
—cassafrass14
Different take on human armageddon. Quick read, but packs a punch.
—Qisara
