Erlend Svendsen

Thrilling from page one

Revisado: 08-06-20

Another zinger in the "Hell Divers"-series. Spectacular action with characters we care about. Several storylines come to an end, but this is not the end of the story. There will be a book eight 😁
The part following Ada was a nice break from the hi-stakes action of the rest of the group.

The narrator R.C. Bray is, as always, fantastic. There is a reason why people seek out books where he is the narrator.

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Almost no story

Revisado: 07-23-20

I like this series, but in this one there is even less story than usual. This is one, looong, battle. A little more story progression would have been nice, the bullet/monster orgy can get at little tiresome when it has been going on for three hours straight.
I'm still looking forward to the last book though 😄

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Wanted to like it more than I did

Revisado: 07-17-20

Having read, and liked "WWZ", I had high hopes when I started this at the beginning of a long drive. I finished it in, more or less, one sitting. Some parts are good, especially the ending (far fetched, but really cool).
In "Devolution" a hi-tech commune for rich hippies is attacked by multible Big Foot (Big Feet?). Nowhere near believable, but a fun idea 🙂 And when it gets to the action, it's horrifyingly fun.
But...
In a story like this where it is told through a diary it should not sound like a novel. The language in a diary will be vastly different from a novel. It never feels like a diary, and then the illusion falls apart.
And the charcters are either stupid, obnoxious or both. I really wanted some of these people to die. Luckily the main character and two others form a trio you can root for.
(One charcter is named Mostar, and I don't know about the US (and the rest of the world for that matter), but in Europe that name is very well known. Why Brooks pulled one of the darkest chapters in modern european history into this I never figured out.)
The cast is fine, most of it falls on Judy Green. I love her as an actor, but here she is uneven. Her bubbly happy narration in the start fits perfectly, but she still talks like that when people are being killed. Then it just sounds wrong.

Some good, some bad. It's okay, just don't expect another "WWZ".

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There is nothing nice about southern ladies

Revisado: 05-14-20

This book frustrated me. The first half is good, never scary, but great as satire. I really wanted to slap some sense into some characters, and hoped some of the men would die, but I enjoyed it. It starts to get its steam up about halfway through, and then it stops. And I don't mean it slows down, no, it drops dead. All momentum is lost, and it basically reboots.
Thankfully the ending is good, and batshit crazy :)

The book is very well written, with some great dialogue, and I know alot of people love it, but for me the middle ruined much of the fun.

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A little too long

Revisado: 03-20-20

This book felt a little too long to me, but when it finally kicks into gear it is good as the others in the series. The parts from the museum were great, but the prison sub plot was a drag. Still love Pendergast & Co., but this was a weak installment in the series.

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Ruined by ignorance

Revisado: 02-06-20

"Write what you know" Stephen King wrote in "On Writing", and that is something every author should take to heart.
The author of this book makes some obvious, and very annoying, mistakes.
1) Finland is not, and has never been, a part of Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden and Denmark)
2) Finnish is very easily identified by a norwegian (one character is norwegian), and would never by mistaken for russian or a scandinavian language. They are very different languages.
3) Most of the norwegian "sayings" in this book are meaningless, and made up, and the one he got right means the opposite of what he thinks!
4) No one, and I mean no one, with knowledge of Finland, and the Nordic countries, would say half the population of Finland are russians (In the authors defense; a character corrects this)
5) And finally, no one would survive the temperatures described in this book for days. The calories you need are waaay beyond what they eat here. They'd be dead, many times over, no matter how much "will to live" they have.

The plot itself is not bad, not great, but there is a decent mystery here. The writing is fine, so I will not "black list" the author :)

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Wonderful scifi

Revisado: 01-19-20

I'm pissed off right now, as I just finished "Mosaic". Can't wait for the next one 🙂
It's refreshing to read a book where characters don't act like idiots just to create tense situations, Grumley creates tension with an intelligent, surprising and somewhat addicting story.
Highly recommended.

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Good book, made great by the narrator

Revisado: 07-03-18

I'll keep this short. The less you know about the story in this book, the better. It starts with a somewhat strange attack on earth, and then continues in space. The focus is on the military, and this is military-scifi. Alanson writes well and adds a lot of humor, especially in the dialogs.
About halfway thru a new character, of whom I will say nothing, is introduced, and R.C. Bray gives the best voice I have ever heard in an audiobook. Some may find it over the top, but I nearly drove off the road I was laughing so hard.
If you like scifi you'll love this, and if you like R.C. Brays narration ("Helldivers"-series and others) you will have a blast with this :)

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Heavy on the gore, light on the story

Revisado: 05-18-18

If you're looking for gore, then look no further. This novel is all about the gore, babies are being eaten, fingers bitten off, and so on and so forth. My trouble with this story is that there is no clear protagonist to focus on. There is a teacher central to the story, but there is not enough to make you care. Long passages (mostly centered on sex) are dedicated to people you know are going to die. I, for my part, didn't care about these characters at all. You get their life story and then they die, to the story they add nothing.
This is a cheap B-movie in the form of a novel. The narration is ok though.

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Remarkably weak

Revisado: 12-09-17

Andy Weir should not write from a female perspective, the main character in "Artemis" is a disaster. That girl is as believable as Santa Clause.
The story isn't that bad, but after a while this book becomes unbearable, it's boring, the dialog is terrible and, worst of all, that dreadful protagonist.
Rosario Dawson does her best, and she is very good, but she can only do so much. Hopefully she gets a better book next time.
The most disappointing book of 2017.

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