2.5 StarsIn addition to a great many typographical errors, the good story in this book is terribly marred by the author's need to live out his teen fantasies with regards to weapons. Nearly every scene includes paragraph after paragraph about the improbable weapons and gadgets available to the 'good guys' in the story. If they had just been lengthy descriptions of weaponry, that wouldn't have been as bad but they were all so improbable that it had me rolling my eyes continuously. And we all know that reading becomes difficult when the organs used to do so are continually rolling in indignant disbelief.Take all that out and it was a decent and interesting story. I have the feeling that it would have been a great book if it had gone a few rounds with a professional editor not afraid to tell the author that "that is just silly, improbable and completely unnecessary to the story".I sincerely doubt I'll be reading the rest of the series.
This book sounded promising, but it turned out to be a real dud.It's about a special division of the FBI, specializing in hunting down ghosts, vampires, mutants etc. Unfortunately the characters were shallow and the writing could have been a script from an "A-Team" episode. A lot of senseless fighting and no depth to the story.I stopped reading after about one third of the book. My time is too valuable to waste on trashy books, that are not even entertaining.Maybe the book gets better near the end, but I did not want to waste the effort to find out.
What do You think about Judgment Night (2000)?
This book is like sitting down next to a stranger at a bar.You introduce yourselves and then this stranger starts to tell you his story. I listened to the whole story and at the end of the story I discovered that I barely knew more about the stranger than I did when he began his story... and worse, I didn't want to know anymore. The story is told with the aplomb of an average fan fiction enthusiast. Action is thin, characterization and/or development is not a consideration, but there is an overwhelming amount of page space dedicated to detailing supplies, weapons, and their acquisition.
—Practical Mike
