Jared Garrett

This book started so well...
It was fresh and interesting and I had such high hopes for it.

But then it started fading slowly into a flat recounting of each and every move the main character takes, told in painful detail, down to individual body parts. Everything is in first person and all that happens involves Nik's body or is something he did, saw or feel. The story turned into an enumeration of little facts and deeds that I couldn't care about. Page after page are just a slow motion description of what Nik personally did with his own two hands:

"I eased forward, reaching as far as I could", "I grabbed a rung as tightly as I could with my right hand", "I pushed, felt some give, and pushed harder", "I found a helpful piece of metal".

Don't think I had to look through the entire book to find these examples. They sit very close to each other on on page the middle of chapter 20.

The entire second part of the book is either this or continuous chase. They run around getting hurt and or shooting people with little sense of purpose. I have no idea what they intend to do, and I have a feeling the author didn't either:

"I didn't halt. I spun and ran, making for the door I’d just come through. A quick, loud explosion behind me; I flinched and dodged." then "I ran through the Prime Administrator’s office" then "I ran down the hallway, glancing behind me for other guards or robots" then "I closed on the elevator door quickly "

Again, all these examples are from just one first page in chapter 22.

Not awful. I mean I was able to finish it. I usually throw away books I don't like. Life is too short to read through a book you don;t enjoy. I don't think I'll read Push.… (mehr)