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An online serial thriller detailing the goings on inside and outside a Seattle university’s Health Sciences Research Building during a hostage crisis involving academic researchers, a hapless research editor, and the world’s third wealthiest man. . . .
May stories take time to develop. You stick with them at first because there is an interesting premise, and hope that persistence will pay off. Worm is not that story.
Worm did what a great story must. It pulled me in the from the first page and didn’t let go until [more . . .]
This author draws you in with characters you care about and an engrossing story-line. The writing is clear and flowing and the attention to detail brings the story to life. It is not often that you find an author who can create a world as vividly real as this.
I’ve been reading online serial superheroic fiction for a long time now, and I’ve read most of the good stuff, and dragged my way through the first few chapters of a lot of the crap. As of right now, Worm is right there at the top of my list as the most compelling and well-written of the lot. Between the [more . . .]
The tone of ‘Consider What Became of the Ashes’ was distant, and the story took leaps in time with little warning. It was not confusing, though. In fact, it was quite entertaining. The narrative voice worked well to tell Noah’s tale, and found appropriate avenues to insert details of Noah’s past, which is quite a sad story. Living in a [more . . .]
Though I haven’t read Above Ground, which this story is apparently related to, I found Theater of Horrors interesting to work through. There was definitely some CYOA nostalgia involved!
There were plenty of hints at a bigger story going on in the background, and a lot of world-building that I was [more . . .]
I remain an indifferent reader of caper novels and am not particularly enamored of ruffians or dashing ne’er-do-wells, but Wright made me care about his cast of unlikely characters. The dialogue is superb, the characterization spot-on and the plot moves with both speed and poise, just as it should in a novel of this kind. It’s funny, it’s entertaining, it’s [more . . .]