![]() ![]() Zin is basically an archetypical jerk-with-a-heart-of-gold. None of the characters are particularly interesting nor well written. It's a fun and exciting story and I'm not going to fault the author for using it, because the execution is pretty decent, coming in from the investigator's point of view and trying to put together the clues to figure out what exactly had happened. Yes, it's cliched and unoriginal but it's unoriginal for a reason - it works. And then - surprise! - The monster breaks out and kills everybody. This is a pretty unremarkable story - researchers decide that it'd be a good idea to create the most powerful monster ever, so powerful that they'd have no means of controlling it. The story is very slow at the start but picks up around chapter 28 which is when the incident at the Central Asian Wargrave research lab is first introduced. more> these types of stories, which is why I'm giving it 4 stars despite problems noted below. Kind of like Global Evolution but with less pseudoscience and more cool fun stuff. It is essentially an "all-rounder" covering everything from survival to fighting to investigation. The main attraction of this story is on the adventure and exploration rather than character interactions / politics or fighting and as such its attraction will remain so long as it continues to reveal a coherent story at a steady pace. Impressions so far (c.61) : Pretty much everything in this novel is simple and straightforward, perhaps overly so. When the MC lectures someone who should be intimately familiar with a system- when he probably hasn't been updated in years (if not decades) - you know the author will do anything to make the MC seem competent. MC is very 'when he gives a sh!t' (and he usually doesn't)Įveryone conveniently s*upid. Story proves it's 'hardcore' by killing off likable characters.Īnother 'not a white night' story- which instead has an unthinking sociopath (except for when inconvenient to plot) for am MC. Lots of forced exposition through speculation.Īnother 'why don't people use phones (or whatever- seriously- there's cyborg. In fact, that's the MC's 'raison d'etre'. I don't want to give it too much credit- It's kind of a 'Black Bullet' variant, only not as well though out. All the bs the author crams into the MCs supposed world view/justifications becomes tiresome as well. I wanted to like this, but it's both unfocused, and has a very sloppy world design.
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