booking_along 's review for:

The Weight of the Dead by Brian Hodge
1.5
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

As was their custom, as the law said, as it came down yesterday in judgment, they strapped her father to the corpse at midday, when the sun was at its highest overhead.


the idea of this was a lot better then the story. at least for what i wanted from story. 

i wanted horror and creepy and i did get that at the very start with a dead body being strapped on a live man as punishment. 

that’s a horrendous though! and the entire reason why and how it will end? 
horrifically creepy and a great idea. 

but the entire rest of this story with how the world got to the point were people are living like they are? 
i was just bout interested. 
and i don’t know if i didn’t enjoy it that much because i didn’t want a futuristic dystopian or if the story was just too long for what it told. 

what ever it was and why it didn’t work for me. 
the writing wasn’t bad but also lot really great for me. 
the general idea of how our world would chance drastically if all of a sudden all electronics wouldn’t work anymore is interesting but how this was told and written didn’t work for me. 

oh well not everything can be for everyone! 

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