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Title:
The Resolve of Immortal Flesh
Series:
Collision #1
Author: Rich Colburn
Rating:
2 of 5 Stars DNF@45%
Genre: Thriller
Pages:
543 / 242
Words: 212K / 95K
Publish:
2016
I
really tried to give this book the benefit of the doubt, mainly
because it had been recommended to me in the Book
Recommendations V post. However, the guy who wrote this made that
impossible. He’s a bad writer with a terrible sense of pacing, an
ego that demands he blather on and on about his pet philosophy and
the lack of ability to write realistic characters that are more than
cardboard.
This should have been a 300 page book, tops. But we spend an inordinate amount of time following the main character as he grows up in a broken home with insane parents. Things randomly happen with no apparent connection. The main character is also an asshole. I’d have gladly chopped his self-centered head off with my Tool of the Trade.
This is bad writing by a bad writer and I’m glad to see that he hasn’t churned out any more trash after 2017 when he put out the sequel to this book. Harsh, yes, but writers like this guy are polluting the literary landscapes like microplastics are polluting our water supply. They should be ashamed of putting out such sub-par garbage. They aren’t skilled enough and they are also teaching a whole generation of readers to accept writing that isn’t good. I’m going to stop there before I start talking about their “special” place in the afterlife :-(
★★☆☆☆
From the writer
What
if the spirit world was rampant with technology sophisticated beyond
anything mankind
has imagined?
What if a sociopath got his
hands on a powerful piece of this technology?
What if you
couldn’t die no matter how much damage your body sustained?
Join
a reluctant hero on his quest to discover what the heck he should do
with his time now that he has unlimited power and the world as he
knew it collides with the “unseen” world. Will demon-possessed
biomechanical monsters kill everyone? Will there be enough coffee to
last through to the end of the world? Will that play into our hero’s
decision whether or not to bother saving it? These are questions
we’ve all wondered about. Explore these and other important
philosophical questions as you follow the adventure that was
contrived to do just that.
On
a more serous note:
The Collision series offers a technological
explanation for the supernatural. Human psychology, questions of life
and death, and the nature of the supernatural play a critical role in
the story of a man who becomes aware of the technology used by beings
existing in higher modes of reality. The story is filled with
humorous situations and comments, fantasy machines, and philosophical
discussion.
The target audience is young adult to adult. The
book does include some supernatural horror and some violence.
