Maze, J.M. McDermott
Ehhh, definitely not for me. Maze is really, really bizarre, not a little disgusting, it can be pretty violent, and it made no sense at all to me. I won it from LibraryThing’s First Reads program, since I’ve been meaning to try this author for a while, but just… nope. It’s creative, sure. Weird, if that’s what you like to read. It’s not even badly written — maybe indifferently, from my point of view, but not badly.
It’s not like I necessarily mind weird, disgusting, violence — I read China Miéville with glee, after all. It’s just… I had nothing to get a grip on here, not even the kind of verve that characterises Miéville’s work.
I have another of this guy’s books to read, I think retelling Greek myths? I hope I enjoy that more.
Definitely hope you enjoy the author’s other book more! I like weird but not disgusting books.
Yeah, weird can be fun, but disgusting… a writer really has to work to make me stick with that!
I haven’t read any book by this author so cant comment but hope that you like his other book better.. 🙂
-Njkinny @ Njkinny’s World of Books
Me too! Haha, thank you.
I can handle violence and even disgusting scenes too an extent, but I have to feel they have a purpose. It sounds like they didn’t in this one, since it just didn’t make sense as a book at all. Too bad, I hope you like the other one better!
Yeah, I really didn’t “get” this one at all…