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Death Glitch
Heart surgeon Isadora Eisenhower is seventy-seven and dying of cancer when she is shot dead. She wakes in the morgue with the body of an eighteen year old. Something brought her back to life, made her young again and some very bad people want to find out how it happened. However, being poked and prodded and having her new life sucked out of her in the name of science and so a few wealthy people can have eternal life doesn't sit too well with Dr. Eisenhower, so to save herself, she goes on the run. But the men behind her pursuit are powerful and bring the forces of Homeland Security and the FBI after her and it seems no matter where she runs, they're a jump ahead of her and soon she'll have no place to hide.
320 pages, Paperback
First published February 29, 2012
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June 7, 2013
So.. where to begin..
At first (as in the first couple of pages) I really liked it… Then the supernatural stuff began and I was lost..
When I started reading this book I was sure that the author had to be a guy, and that he had sat down and listed all the things he liked, and then wrote a story where all these things happens..
Fancy cars, big guns, beautiful women, beautiful women making out on a bed – ask any 15 year old boy what he likes and it’s in this book…
And THEN we also have all the weird supernatural stuff.. I honestly didn’t even know it was a paranormal kind of story, until the dead 77 year old woman/MC suddenly wakes up as an alive 20-something girl.
And then we get people disappearing up into the air.. Literally up into the air and you don’t get answers about where they went. You have men turning into women too. Because yeah, why the fuck not, you know?
Well, the supernatural stuff is one thing the writing is another.. Holy mother of God this is bad. Not the storyline itself which could work I guess, but the actual development of characters is so bad! It’s the way the 77 year old that suddenly, finds herself a younger girl, but still has her 77 year old mind, starts to talk all gangster. It’s the way she’s supposed to “hate guns” (as she tells us) and then have a house full of guns. It’s the way the “bad girl” says she will never disappoint the dude who “raised her” and then kills him later on. It’s the way the good cop, blows his partner’s brains out, literally blows his partner’s brains out because he’s taking money from another bad dude.. Because yes, that’s what the GOOD COPS do instead of, you know, REPORTING IT?! I could go on and on and on and on with examples of where the characters just don’t make sense, but really, the book it one long example of just that.
As I said the development of the story and not least the characters is really bad, and it takes away from the storyline.
2 stars.
At first (as in the first couple of pages) I really liked it… Then the supernatural stuff began and I was lost..
When I started reading this book I was sure that the author had to be a guy, and that he had sat down and listed all the things he liked, and then wrote a story where all these things happens..
Fancy cars, big guns, beautiful women, beautiful women making out on a bed – ask any 15 year old boy what he likes and it’s in this book…
And THEN we also have all the weird supernatural stuff.. I honestly didn’t even know it was a paranormal kind of story, until the dead 77 year old woman/MC suddenly wakes up as an alive 20-something girl.
And then we get people disappearing up into the air.. Literally up into the air and you don’t get answers about where they went. You have men turning into women too. Because yeah, why the fuck not, you know?
Well, the supernatural stuff is one thing the writing is another.. Holy mother of God this is bad. Not the storyline itself which could work I guess, but the actual development of characters is so bad! It’s the way the 77 year old that suddenly, finds herself a younger girl, but still has her 77 year old mind, starts to talk all gangster. It’s the way she’s supposed to “hate guns” (as she tells us) and then have a house full of guns. It’s the way the “bad girl” says she will never disappoint the dude who “raised her” and then kills him later on. It’s the way the good cop, blows his partner’s brains out, literally blows his partner’s brains out because he’s taking money from another bad dude.. Because yes, that’s what the GOOD COPS do instead of, you know, REPORTING IT?! I could go on and on and on and on with examples of where the characters just don’t make sense, but really, the book it one long example of just that.
As I said the development of the story and not least the characters is really bad, and it takes away from the storyline.
2 stars.
April 23, 2013
Oh the badness of this book. I made it into the third chapter, where the newly resurrected protagonist is performing open heart surgery and when the real doc shows up she babbles something about her being the girl he couldn't have-to which he replies "iz?" And then she saves the day. Really? Eff me. Oh, and she is murdered while delivering a baby on the sidewalk .
What a poorly written turkey this thing is, the plot points are just so... Awkward. The protagonist is supposed to be almost 80, yet is narrated like a 26 year old. It just doesn't gel. It really feels like the author did little research, and expects us to be so intrigued with the idea of eternal youth that we overlook wooden characters and poor descriptive writing. I wonder if the rest of the book is going to be about vampires fucking or some nonsense? Too bad it's just too painful for me to bother finding out.
What a poorly written turkey this thing is, the plot points are just so... Awkward. The protagonist is supposed to be almost 80, yet is narrated like a 26 year old. It just doesn't gel. It really feels like the author did little research, and expects us to be so intrigued with the idea of eternal youth that we overlook wooden characters and poor descriptive writing. I wonder if the rest of the book is going to be about vampires fucking or some nonsense? Too bad it's just too painful for me to bother finding out.
February 23, 2016
I rather like the basic concept--a septuagenarian cancer patient dies and is mysteriously brought back to life as an eighteen year-old. Various people who hear about this want to capture her and turn her into a laboratory specimen so that they can extract "the fountain of youth" from her. Good so far. Unfortunately, the story suffers from clichéed, unbelievable characterization, and a healthy dose of contrivance and coincidence that is beyond far-fetched. The ending is uninspired, bordering on deus ex-machina.
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November 13, 2014This would make such a seriously kick ass book. Unfortunately there were too many flaws to list them all. There are quite a few interesting ideas the author had in the story so I am hoping that eventually that he is able to... take advantage of the potential and flesh out the story better in the future.
December 11, 2013
Death Glitch is an interesting novel, and definitely worth reading. I am surprised by the low rating others have given it. The only thing I can critique on is the lack of depth of the characters/plot. I feel like this novel was hurriedly written... Especially towards the end.
July 6, 2013
hard to get started then hard to put down then ???????
November 8, 2014
A bit of a headlong title with a few minor spelling and proofing issues, this at least kept my interest. The ending wasn't exactly shattering but it's certainly one way to add to a writing career.
March 12, 2014
Good plot - terrible execution of that plot - writing was poor - thankfully it was a short book!
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