Wanderers

Ugh. What a drag.

Wendig tries to follow the steps of Stephen King but fails so miserably. I'm not sure I would have finished it if it wasn't because I got this as part of a gifted book subscription. Nothing happens for the first 500 pages, not even character development and after 800 the author was still unable to write a decent arc for any of the characters. Each one of their stories seems just like stereotypes that have been used a thousand times before (only probably better than here).

This read like it was written with the intention of becoming a film/TV show and it kinda tracks given the fact that it ended on a cliff-hanger that leads to a second book (equally long) which I will not be reading.

I could have done without the racial and homophobic slurs, without the rape scene that did not really add anything to the plot and without the sexism (not just from the nasty characters but also from those that are described as the heroes).

Minor point and probably not the author's fault, but the edition of the book was also dreadful – there were numerous printing errors, and words being combined when it didn't seem like that was the intention of the author.

As a personal note, if you have anything remotely close to trypophobia – don't read this book. It will trigger you.