During the ten-year anniversary of the Wyman High School class of 2015, something terrible has escaped its confinement—and it’s heading straight for the celebration. A mutant hybrid of terrifying strength and unnatural abilities is on the loose.
Meanwhile, two desperate hunters are trying to track down the creature they lost during transport. But they’re already too late.
A group of classmates on a party boat, en route to the reunion, begin vanishing one by one—hunted, stalked, and slaughtered.
One thing’s for this will be a reunion no one will ever forget... if they survive.
Mr B is insane and George is an outright a**hole. It is very very lucky that they were able to destroy the creature but I fear for what Mr B is going to do in the future.
After reading this, I am certain the author hates women. All descriptions of women in this book relate to their physical “attributes.” When the perspective flips to a male character interacting with a female character, the male’s first thoughts are on the appearance of the female character. It felt gratuitous for no reason. It didn’t further the story along (apart from making me want the characters to fall victim to the beast sooner). I read one paragraph of a female character’s description to my male coworker and even he thought it was gross.
Leon, referring to Cecilia after a minimal interaction, says he “just wanted to get in her pants,” and that “she was obviously yearning for someone.” Now she was “playing coy and hard to get.” Then it flips to Cecilia thinking of Leon as “nothing more than a ravenous hound” and “The vulnerability that accompanied his angst was unexpected to say the least.” After a minimal, few moments of interaction. How did Cecilia even come to this conclusion? It felt like there were odd interactions interspersed throughout to beef up the story, where minimalist would have been better. Or at least something that flowed and made sense.
The interactions between the male and female characters make me wonder if the author has ever had a conversation with someone of the opposite sex. The conversations are awkward and stilted. They do not feel natural and are all over the place. This is a creature book but I cannot get past the dialogue. Even parts that are not dialogue feel so disjointed.
I kept reading simply because I hoped there would be something redeeming. There really wasn’t. I did get a great laugh out of the absurdity of it all, as did my friends when I shared excerpts.
Maybe if this had been an ARC read, things could have been corrected, the story shaped up. “He was smoking a cigar and had a glass of brandy in the other.” The other what? There was a part referred to an already deceased character speaking (rather than the actual person who was doing the speaking - Jordon for Joe).
Things were missing and some parts just did not make sense and flow. I think the premise was good, however it just was not well executed.