Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I rarely bother writing reviews, but I found this to be such a completely disappointing read for a book Amazon reviewed as a Best of the Month that I wanted to express my thoughts. I’d read and loved Brooks’ “World War Z”, and looked forward to this one, given its advance praise. But it’s very slow-moving, and the writing mostly comes across as merely an excuse to try and be macho. It’s like Brooks wanted to create these nightmarishly epic scenes but didn’t want to spend a lot of time having to do it. These creatures are basically described as nine-ft-tall, demon-like Hulks, but they’re actions and behavior are flat-out boring. Once they bombard the little village with mini-boulders they throw from a distance, another time they’re needing/wanting to single a human out from a group, even though they’re demon-like Hulks, and another time one kills like a bad-a** stealthy assassin. Before the halfway point I was reading just to see if it got any better, and with still about 80 pages left I was simply too irritated with the writing and story to bother finishing it. I know this is and will stay a bestseller, but I’ll never have any more interest in reading any of his future books.