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Book Review of The Terror

The Terror
The Terror
Author: Dan Simmons
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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Entertaining to be sure, but reading it felt a little like riding a rollercoaster backwards. Fast paced and attention grabbing in the begining, it loses a little momentum mid book, picks up again and comes to an abrupt and awkward halt at the end. I respect the author's creativity throughout, but he lost me in those last couple of chapters. Not plot-wise; that was easy to follow. What lost me was the plot itself. I spent more time thinking "Why would the author go THAT route?" than about the story. Maybe I'm a teensy bit overly analytical, but I felt the ending could have been much better with a few omissions and tweaks. Overall a good book. Would read again, just maybe skip the end the second time around.