Well! What can I say? I want to comment on all the elements that Reilly fit into the crash-bang wowza ending to this book. But that would be to spoil. Really it was crash-bang from page 1 all the way through page 534. Would make a great movie, if you could pull off the special effects, which I guess we can these days. Our hero, Scarecrow, even likened his experiences to a video game towards the end, which I find apt. Fuzzy warm creatures saving lives; mutated evil giant eating-you-alive creatures; double- and triple-crossers; I wish I could tell you more, but suffice it to say that this was one of the less believable stories I’ve read lately, and definitely wishes it were in Hollywood. Oh, and a certain person’s survival of a certain set of circumstances strains credulity. Not entirely un-enjoyable, but suspension of disbelief is required in quantity.
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As someone said on the TVtropes.org page, Reilly and Michael (“Transformers”, “Armegeddon”) Bay are meant to be together. Belief must not only be suspended but sent on a long, cross-country trip. I enjoyed the book in a popcorn-for-the-brain sort of way. I will probably read some of his other titles, but I don’t think I’ll be buying them!
Fascinating. I certainly don’t know directors well enough to have come up with that myself but it makes perfect sense! I definitely felt that Reilly was writing for the big screen; you just found the director.