Jeremy Robinson is an acclaimed author and I’ve enjoyed many of his books. Tether is billed in the SciFi/Fantasy genre but there was not much descriptive science fiction-y elements to it unless one also considers, say, Ghost Busters a SciFi story which I don’t. Still, as a thriller/horror story, in the Dean Koontz Intensity vein, it fits comfortably. My impression is that it had elements of Ghost Busters, The Sixth Sense, Elfen Lied (anime), and Ready Player One (Trivial Pursuit Movie Category).
I was mildly disappointed that the author never explained how the laboratory incident ended up creating kaiju other than some intense polarity reversal type fiasco. In fact, there were several areas that were only superficially touched on, especially character backstories, where a fuller explanation would have helped the story. Even the characters themselves weren’t very likable. The MC was basically a drug-addled loser and a kept husband while his genius wife and their female genius friend were in on the developing the technology that ended up killing 1000s of lives.
Jeffrey Kafer is a good narrator but his always intense declarative tone comes across as everyone speaking every sentence in an authoritative manner.