Orion Consumed.

by Greg Buchanan

Consumed ABISBOOK Orion.

528 pages, Paperback

Published February 29, 2024

Reviews

[Hannah · Rating 2 out of 5]

1.5 ⭐ rounding up because despite its length it was quite a quick read and I wanted to know what happened at the end, but this was really quite dreadful. the writing was very introspective and very literary which just didn't match with the genre and the characterisation of the FMC was very typical of a men-writing-troubled-women in all the worst ways. completely unsatisfactory ending with a link (which by the way is no longer active) to a short story that would actually explain the mystery of what happened... why it wasn't put in the book as an epilogue is beyond me. reading 400-odd pages of the book and then needing to read something else on the author's website to explain it all is completely ridiculous, plus I can't find it anywhere to actually read it!

[Sandra · Rating 3 out of 5]

Hard to know how to rate this, especially because, although absorbed, I did not much enjoy it. Re-reading my review of 'Sixteen horses', I see I wrote "Written in a somewhat twisty fashion with a clarity and seemingly effortless setting of place". The twistiness was there, (and the gruesome of it more or less as expected), but for me the clarity was missing; the characters hard to differentiate and the actions of each too easily forgotten or muddled, so I finished reading with little knowledge of who actually did what and a sense of being left adrift (which I recognise likely to be my lack as much as the book.) Not helped by the offer of short story ending having expired)

[Adam Baxter · Rating 3 out of 5]

Disappointing follow-up to his well received Sixteen Horses. Generally well written with a clever concept but the story is possibly too complicated and covers too many time periods.

[Renita D'Silva · Rating 4 out of 5]

Dark

[Matt Hockridge · Rating 3 out of 5]

Confusing