Some may love this as it’s formatted in such a way that reminds you of old comic books. There are good bit. Very good even. Very high potential…

This is a dark supper hero story, not uncommon at all. (Spoiler warning? More of a sanity warning) Why set it up with the hero basically murdering three children? It’s certainly established the direction of where it was heading. Maybe giving you a chance to quit and return the book.

It’s strange. It gives you the sense of old comics that children used to read all the time. But then hit you with the dark superhero stuff that happened a decade later. It establishes childish humor, which I do enjoy. But then goes far out into adult concepts.

It’s nothing but whiplash. Am I supposed to enjoy this or is it supposed to be thought-provoking? I don’t know. Normally that would put a book on my shelf just for being different. But somehow there’s absolutely nothing different about this book you have read or watched absolutely everything that’s in this. It’s almost a slap in the face to every thing that’s come before it.

Now don’t let everything I just said get you excited. Because what I’m trying to say is this book was boring. And a bit traumatizing with that child murder thing…

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The narration was good. Possibly deserves more than three stars… some may even say five stars I don’t know. But the book just drug it down for me.

I don’t believe the narrator spoke too slowly… But this is one of the first books I was able to understand completely at 3.5x speed. For reference I own 1500 audiobooks.

I quite often listen to books at two times speed. And I will jump to three times speed if I get bored. But it wasn’t just the boredom this time. I just wanted the torture to stop.

NOTE: I believe my review has been affected by a book I listened to just previous to this one. It too, left me with a sense of depression.

Labeling a book for a suggested age is nice. But after so many audiobooks that affect me so much greater than paper books. I believe warnings of depression and gore should be mandatory.