Monstrosity
by Edward Lee

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Book Review: 13 reasons I hated this novel
Summary: 1 Stars

2)The archeological story thread has little to do with the rest of the story.

3) The chronology of the story threads is awkward, at best.

4) A clunky lead weight of a sentence like this: "She preferred to think of herself, instead, as a passionate woman who pursued her physical desires in a feminine natural way, not a societal urchin hopelessly addicted to variant amphetamines and subsequently given to rampant sexual excess due to a subjugating environment and a connected dependency to the unnatural stimulation of certain chemical receptors in her soon-to-be-if-not-already damaged brain."

5) Potentially interesting characters soon devolve into juvenile stereotypes.

6) The heroine stumbles onto clues too conveniently and predictably.

7) Minor characters routinely and predictably become monster food.

8) The novel is populated only by relevant characters (Where is the rest of the staff of the facility? Or other people from outside the community?)

9) The ending is predictable (the mastermind who feels he has to explain everything at the climax), farfetched (a minor character brought in from left field at the end), and dull (evil govt research, genetic mutations, yadayadayada) in about equal parts.

10) Everything is wrapped up too conveniently, except for the archeological part, which is

11) one of the many things left unexplained.

12) There are logical implausibilities (Why leave Clare on the streets for so long?)

13) Why go through the ruse of hiring for a job? Why not just arrange a disappearance and hold the individuals prisoner at the facility, where they can be better controlled and analyzed?

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