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Pack Instinct
MEGA-CITY A POWDER KEG WAITING TO BLOW
There isn’t a moment when tensions aren’t running high and the City isn’t ready to crack. But there’s something new going on, something bad. It’s open war in the streets, block vs block. It’s a Block war.
It’s Block Mania, and no one is immune, not even the Judges.
There isn’t a moment when tensions aren’t running high and the City isn’t ready to crack. But there’s something new going on, something bad. It’s open war in the streets, block vs block. It’s a Block war.
It’s Block Mania, and no one is immune, not even the Judges.
139 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 29, 2022
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September 17, 2022
Truly, utterly terrible
in every way it can be. The characters sucked, not one of them was likeable and the author didn't characterise them. He introduces each character, spends a few pages telling you their character, then never builds upon or changes them. They get no development, they don't change, they don't do much of anything truth be told.
The action is dull and makes zero sense. If people aren't stuck in poorly written firefights, they're driving lawmasters down Block hallways. The action is dull, uninteresting and worst of all, badly written.
The author writes with this smug, up his own ass attitude where he switches from 3rd person narration to some sort of pseudo-first person that isn't first person but says stuff like 'now, I don't know...' who? Who doesn't know? But worse than that, John Ware clearly thought he was quite a clever writer because he mentions all these small, obscure bits of lore that no one would really know, but then gets the most basic parts of how a Lawgiver works or what a Judge's uniform looks like wrong.
No one acts like a Judge, even before being infected with Block Mania and even those who do not have Block Mania don't act like Judges.
John uses 'and' far to much which leads to the problem of numerous run-on sentences.
All of this, and more, is why I gave this book 1 Star. I will not be buying or reading the other two books in this series and have made a note to avoid this author in the future.
The action is dull and makes zero sense. If people aren't stuck in poorly written firefights, they're driving lawmasters down Block hallways. The action is dull, uninteresting and worst of all, badly written.
The author writes with this smug, up his own ass attitude where he switches from 3rd person narration to some sort of pseudo-first person that isn't first person but says stuff like 'now, I don't know...' who? Who doesn't know? But worse than that, John Ware clearly thought he was quite a clever writer because he mentions all these small, obscure bits of lore that no one would really know, but then gets the most basic parts of how a Lawgiver works or what a Judge's uniform looks like wrong.
No one acts like a Judge, even before being infected with Block Mania and even those who do not have Block Mania don't act like Judges.
John uses 'and' far to much which leads to the problem of numerous run-on sentences.
All of this, and more, is why I gave this book 1 Star. I will not be buying or reading the other two books in this series and have made a note to avoid this author in the future.
March 24, 2023
The book is different other Judge Dreed novels has this one is a novelization of the the first part from one the Judge Dredd storylines in the comics. The plot is focused on the side judge chacthers and civilians during the opening days of the apocalypse war events on what Judge Dredd was doing at the time was secound with only brief mentions by the chacthers.
Also the author laid the female judges heat for the Chief Judge Mercer I if your going to to give at least give it.
Also the author laid the female judges heat for the Chief Judge Mercer I if your going to to give at least give it.
October 6, 2022
I've been a Dredd fan forever and I've read a bunch of these things down the years. This is easily one of the better ones. Fast-paced and faithful to the comics.
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