Scott Graham
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Not to suggest I didn’t enjoy the story and writing, buuuuuut…. between the first career setback for Darrow and the climactic celebration, I kept screaming at the characters, “Are you all idiots? Do you learn nothing?”. Especially during the denouement. A distrustful father and untrusting partner allow the deceitful and dangerous villain to prepare a large gathering unfettered. The bad guys at the end commit the classic error even a middle school student would advise them against: don’t leave the hero alive. Kill him when you have the opportunity. I’m still going to read book three of the trilogy. I do care about four remaining characters and I would like to see some hot vengeance served up. Going to retire now to an unrelated novel, where the author doesn’t take their characters for idiots.
Not to suggest I didn’t enjoy the story and writing, buuuuuut…. between the first career setback for Darrow and the climactic celebration, I kept screaming at the characters, “Are you all idiots? Do you learn nothing?”. Especially during the denouement. A distrustful father and untrusting partner allow the deceitful and dangerous villain to prepare a large gathering unfettered. The bad guys at the end commit the classic error even a middle school student would advise them against: don’t leave the hero alive. Kill him when you have the opportunity. I’m still going to read book three of the trilogy. I do care about four remaining characters and I would like to see some hot vengeance served up. Going to retire now to an unrelated novel, where the author doesn’t take their characters for idiots.
What To Expect When You're Dead reads like a laundry list of the death practices and beliefs in the afterlife activities of the dearly or not so dearly departed. The author chose to examine concepts of the funerary practices of several civilizations and the beliefs of the afterlife and organize the book in that manner. It resulted in a disjointed book, jumping across a half dozen or so civilizations, topic by topic. It was as dry as dust.
It resulted in death knowledge overload. It's meticulously documented, so one gets the idea that it was at least partially intended as a reference; I think it would have been better presented civilization by civilization, complete in all the beliefs and practices of the civilzation before moving on to the next civilization.
What To Expect When You're Dead reads like a laundry list of the death practices and beliefs in the afterlife activities of the dearly or not so dearly departed. The author chose to examine concepts of the funerary practices of several civilizations and the beliefs of the afterlife and organize the book in that manner. It resulted in a disjointed book, jumping across a half dozen or so civilizations, topic by topic. It was as dry as dust.
It resulted in death knowledge overload. It's meticulously documented, so one gets the idea that it was at least partially intended as a reference; I think it would have been better presented civilization by civilization, complete in all the beliefs and practices of the civilzation before moving on to the next civilization.
What To Expect When You're Dead reads like a laundry list of the death practices and beliefs in the afterlife activities of the dearly or not so dearly departed. The author chose to examine concepts of the funerary practices of several civilizations and the beliefs of the afterlife and organize the book in that manner. It resulted in a disjointed book, jumping across a half dozen or so civilizations, topic by topic. It was as dry as dust.
It resulted in death knowledge overload. It's meticulously documented, so one gets the idea that it was at least partially intended as a reference; I think it would have been better presented civilization by civilization, complete in all the beliefs and practices of the civilzation before moving on to the next civilization.
What To Expect When You're Dead reads like a laundry list of the death practices and beliefs in the afterlife activities of the dearly or not so dearly departed. The author chose to examine concepts of the funerary practices of several civilizations and the beliefs of the afterlife and organize the book in that manner. It resulted in a disjointed book, jumping across a half dozen or so civilizations, topic by topic. It was as dry as dust.
It resulted in death knowledge overload. It's meticulously documented, so one gets the idea that it was at least partially intended as a reference; I think it would have been better presented civilization by civilization, complete in all the beliefs and practices of the civilzation before moving on to the next civilization.