Spectacular start to what I expect will have a satisfying story arc, even if the universe in which this is written continues indefinitely. The drunk, happy-go-lucky, swingers suddenly entering a suicide pack was brilliantly told in a horrific and eerie tone. This was made ten time creepier by the fact that the characters were entranced in a state of complete bliss. The giddy excitement I felt before reading this story was instantly replaced with giddy horror at what I was reading. The slow fade to the iconic Celldweller music at the end of the prologue gave it the distinct sensation of a cold opening from TV shows. Descriptively cinematic, the strongest comparison I can make is to the prologue that featured a ten year old political assassin from the opening of 7th Son.
This is such a difficult story to recommend to people. I know many of my friends and family would be instantly turned off by this graphic introduction. By no means lacking in gore, I still feel fans of Scott Sigler and Stephen King might get the impression this is a very tame and “PG-13” description. I think the tone sets up, not so much a horror, but a thriller novel.
To me, recommendations are the single most difficult form of writing. I can still remember the bark of laughter from my roommate when I gave him one of my physical copies of 7th Son and the first thing he does is read aloud, “Saturday sex with Sarah was the best.” I had to tell him to tell him to read the prologue first just to get him to stop laughing.
Since I want to focus mainly on story analysis here, my recommendations will be brief, 33-words per episode. I hope that other fans will evangelize the book, as I plan to do, on Amazon, Goodreads, Facebook, and Twitter. This blog is meant to be more of a way to process my speculation and opinions of each episode and maybe even stimulate thoughtful discussion for other fans. Nothing would delight me more than to see a fan podcast spring up for this series.
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