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Nemesis by Mark Millar
3.0

2.5 to make it clear. This is RIGHT down the middle.

So what if you created a villain with no constraints. You'd get Nemesis. He'll slice your dick off, he'll make your kids have sex with each other, he'll strap a bomb to your wife. He'll do whatever it takes, he has no limits, he is...THE NEMESIS.

This probably would have been cooler if I was 16 still and just wanted mindless insane action without any real characters. You can kill a million people, you can force incest as much as you want, but in the end if you don't have characters to care about...what's the point?

Oh yeah, shock factor. Well this story does a pretty good job at that.

Listen, this isn't a horrible story, hence the 2.5. It's actually a very quick read, the pacing is solid, there's no boring parts, and there are some crazy amount of violent moments. That's it though. There isn't much more to find here. It's like seeing a really cool action figure, you put it up, but never really look at it again. Okay...that was dumb, but you get the point.

This is a empty book with no real soul, just mindless violence. Which could mean a good time, which I had, but nothing I'll remember.