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The Pulse: A Novel Of When America's Grid Goes Black (2012)

by Scott B. Williams(Favorite Author)

3.14 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1612430546 (ISBN13: 9781612430546)

languge

English

genre

Science Fiction

publisher

Ulysses Press

review 1: It's unfortunate that I took so much time reading this book--after the first chapter I was simply trying to finish it to be done with it. Everything in this book is repetitive--a character will think a thought, tell that thought to another character (using almost the exact same words), and then possible repeat it again for a third character. New thought, repeat. Having read books that describe the end of the world, and how to live in it, I was sorely disappointed in this poorly written novel. At one point I wondered if it is a self-published book, because it doesn't seem to have been read or looked at by any type of editor. The most enjoyable part of the book was reading it aloud in an overly dramatic voice to my boyfriend...and then laughing at how ridiculous the 'storyli... morene' is.
review 2: Maybe more like 2.5. The story kept me marginally interested but I was a bit bothered by the coincidences that allowed the protagonist to "sail through" to his hopeless search for his daughter. Seemed as though the author "ran out of steam" & simply decided that Dad would find Daughter by blind dumb luck & the story could end. Daughter's escape from her "sicko suitor" was interesting to a point, but the overall resolution & end of the book was formulaic & oddly anti-climactic. less

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