Reconozco que, si bien no estoy de acuerdo con todo lo que dice, coincido con muchas de sus críticas. Así que cuando anunció en su canal la publicación de “Dark Harvest”, decidí comprarla para comprobar si “predicaba con el ejemplo”. I wante …more Great question! Yes, Cain is very much the Big Bad of this series, and there were three aspects of his character that were important to me: It's also very well written, that may sound like a contradiction with what I just said, but the prose is efficient, vivid and does the job. I don't think there was a moment in this book where I wasn't grounded in the setting and following the action with ease and enjoyment. Like the description says, this book invokes World War Z, but not the book, more so the movie. This might put people off at first, but what if the film were improved, brought down a notch and had its narrative carefully crafted? Rather than just being thrown together and flung at the silver screen. My wife and I read this book together (one of us read aloud while the other would drive or do a chore) and we were surprised at the inconsistent quality of the writing.

Second small gripe is the repetition of explanations. Characters spend an inordinate amount of time (or at least it certainly feels that way), explaining and re-explaining the same situation for every new character that comes along. It may be understandable for an author to want to remind the reader if the thought is they may have forgotten or perhaps become confused, but this happened too often and, frankly, not enough happened between these instances for a reader to really forget. Will Jordan offers the Youtube video channel known as the Critical Drinker. He opines about science fiction, fantasy, and gaming offerings. I have found his opinions to be invariably insightful and informative. His usual complaint about modern stories is that they either don't make the character engaging or they don't present the story conflict in a way that captures the readers' attention. The plot is a paint by numbers, formulaic hero-saves-the-world story. The Dyatlov Pass mention is just used to mascarade a bland story we all have seen before hundres of times. If you don’t have the sentence “Then all Hell broke loose.” in your thriller, do they toss you out of the Thriller Writers Union? Time is running out for Ryan Drake. With his enemies moving against him and his allies no longer able to support him, his world is turned upside down by a personal tragedy that forces him to return to the UK.

Not at all my thing, although objectively speaking this book was pretty well done for the sort of book it was. Solid on all accounts with nothing egregiously stupid or gratuitously violent getting in the way of telling a story. If action is your thing (especially, high-stakes apocalyptic-flavored action), you’ll probably love this novel. It has a very cinematic sort of style to its high-octane narrative that works well and makes it a dynamic read. The sense of place, be it snowy mountains or sandy deserts is done very well too. It sounds like a simple mission. But nothing is what it seems, and within hours of arriving in the war-torn country, Drake and his team find themselves caught in a deadly conflict between a brutal terrorist warlord and the ruthless leader of a private military company. And lurking in the shadows is a woman from Drake’s past determined to take revenge for two decades of betrayal. Qué me ha parecido? Me ha gustado. Es una novela entretenida y no busca nada más que eso: entretener y atrapar. Si alguien busca alta literatura siempre tiene el “Ulises” de James Joyce. La narración tiene mucho de película de acción, con tiroteos, persecuciones, malos malísimos, y viajes a lugares exóticos. Conforme avanzamos los capítulos se van haciendo más cortos, más rápidos, para transmitir la tensión de una cuenta atrás que los protagonistas tienen que parar. The writting could have used heavy editing as several phrases repeat themselves very often. "skill set" being one of them.

There are also a few moments were the logistics and science are just a bit too stretched, I normally wouldn't mind too much but just things like the characters being able to zoom around the world with minimal fuss and there is a very awkward juxtaposition of this book being written before Covid-19, but also being very much based around the idea of a Zombie virus being treated as a disease outbreak. Again its not deal-breaker stuff its just sits kind of weird e.g. we know that in an outbreak its unlikely that all countries are going to have the same responses / co-operate with the WHO.

Advance Praise

Es una novela de acción (otras personas utilizarán el término thriller), que comienza en un recóndito lugar de la Unión Soviética en 1959. Una expedición desaparecida en extrañas circunstancias y una conexión con el presente que puede llevar a la muerte de millones de personas. Dos desconocidos que se encuentran en una situación límite deberán colaborar para evitar la catástrofe. Sin poder contar mucho más, este es el guión de “Dark Harvest”, una novela que no tiene más objetivo que entretener a quien la lea. A suspenseful, gripping read that transported me into the freezing mountains and had me guessing to the end.” Nicholas Sansbury Smith, New York Times bestselling author of Hell Divers I thought the author wrote action scenes well enough but it got a lot messier in between them. The first chapter this really stood out was chapter 8. There were other irritating details, like the author’s overuse of wordy idioms. “Under no illusions,” etc. It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” Meanwhile Dr Lori Dalton, an epidemiologist also in Iraq with the UN learns of a disturbing occurrence at a village not too far away. There is a report of all the villagers being dead with their eyes bleeding their mouths frothing. Dalton is alarmed and wants to investigate. Her boss vetoes this strenuously but Dalton defies him and takes a small contingent of medical and army personnel to see what is going on. It’s like a zombie apocalypse as not all the villagers are dead and they swarm the investigating team.

Por qué me llamó la atención? La compré por su autor, Will Jordan, un escritor escocés con más de diez novelas publicadas, y sobre todo conocido por su faceta de crítico de películas y series a través de su alter ego “The Critical Drinker”. En su canal de Youtube, en el que a diciembre de 2022 tiene un millón y medio de seguidores, Jordan muestra su hastío por las propuestas que tienen más interés en educar que entretener, y cierta nostalgia por películas de acción como “Terminator”, “Depredador”, o “Golpe en la pequeña China”. Dark Harvest has a decent mix of military action that readers of Jordan's work would come to expect, as well as tendrils within historical events. Some are true to life, and others are fictional. But the lines are blurred just enough to really pull someone into this just after a few chapters. You have proven yourself willing to not be one of those timid writers who neither seek to dare greatly or have any vision for their work. There are many of those people out there. It is a pleasure to find someone like yourself who defies such timidity.

Will Jordan Hi Samuel. Book 6 is almost finished, and we've currently pencilled in a June 2016 launch date. We won't know for sure until the editing is done, but …more Hi Samuel. Book 6 is almost finished, and we've currently pencilled in a June 2016 launch date. We won't know for sure until the editing is done, but definitely this summer. Also I'm hoping to publish a novella shortly before this, but more details on that later. With the fate of the War on Terror hanging in the balance, loyalties are tested and scores settled, as Drake embarks on the fight of his life. Only one side will survive…

My one chief complaint is that the characters were nearly superhuman in their efforts to solve the mystery. At one point I laughed because there is no way that real humans could endure the series of events and keep going with the kind of single-minded resolve Cameron and Lori show. They make the Energize bunny look lazy! The dialogue deserves a second mention, as it is really bad. The whole thing reads like a script for a B grade, cheesy 2000's action movie.However, I found the resolution to be a bit too tidy. I prefer a few loose ends, a little bit left unsaid. Or, dare I say, an unhappy ending and the demise of the main character(s). But maybe that's just me! Maybe I should seek counseling for my sadistic book preferences.