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Dead Shock: A Sci-Fi Horror Novel
- The Shock Series, Book 1
- By: Wallace Henry
- Narrated by: Tom Sleeker
- Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 15
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 15
It's supposed to be a simple job, a look-see operation to make sure something terrible hasn't happened. The leader is prone to fits of violence, and there are rumors of previous human rights abuses. Only, when they arrive, the ship is...empty. The question is - where did everybody go? Armed only with riot gear, they explore the ship, intent on discovering the truth about what's happened on The Ark. What they find will be more nightmarish than anything they've seen before. Indeed, it's worse than anything they could imagine.
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3 out of 5 stars
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actually pretty good
- By Stacey M on 07-26-24
- Dead Shock: A Sci-Fi Horror Novel
- The Shock Series, Book 1
- By: Wallace Henry
- Narrated by: Tom Sleeker
WARNING: NO ENDING!
Reviewed: 07-29-22
I understand that when you're writing the first book in a series, you need to leave stuff for the sequel. That makes sense. But you're also supposed to at least offer some conclusion to the events of the first book. Dead Shock does not. EDIT: This is doubly true if THE NEXT BOOK ISN'T EVEN OUT YET. What the hell, Wallace Henry?
Imagine you're watching a James Bond movie. You keep hearing about some secret doomsday weapon, and Bond is trying to reach the villain's hidden base. He gets to the secret entrance, but can't figure out how to get in. Just then, the intercom kicks on, and the villain taunts Bond that he's about to die... and then the movie ends. That's roughly analogous to the "ending" of this book. I would probably have rated it as high as 4 stars if it actually had any kind of ending, but it doesn't, so I'm almost tempted to give it a 1. It gets a 2 because it's decently well written in most other respects.
If you're cool with the extremely cheap tactic of forcing the reader to buy the next book just to get what should have been the ending of this one, go right ahead; otherwise, I can't recommend.
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