Scotto Moore's Wild Massive is a web of lies, secrets, and humor in a breakneck, nitrous-boosted saga of the small rejecting the will of the mighty. Welcome to the Building, an infinitely tall skyscraper in the center of the multiverse, where any floor could contain a sprawling desert oasis, a cyanide rain forest, or an entire world. Carissa loves her elevator. Up and down she goes, content with the sometimes chewy food her reality fabricator spits out, as long as it means she doesn’t have to speak to another living person. But when a mysterious shapeshifter from an ambiguous world lands on top of her elevator, intent on stopping a plot to annihilate hundreds of floors, Carissa finds herself stepping out of her comfort zone. She is forced to flee into the Wild Massive network of theme parks in the Building, where technology, sorcery, and elaborate media tie-ins combine to form impossible ride experiences, where every guest is a VIP, the roller coasters are frequently safe, and if you don’t have a valid day pass, the automated defense lasers will escort you from being alive.
Publication Year: 2023
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yo, future me! remember to edit this things you write while at work. :)
I wanted to like this book so badly.
By the 30% it had me on chokehold. I couldn't underestand why the rating was so low when this was so good and then it hit me... we were barely on the 30% mark and I was already thinking of the ending. Around that mark comes the first "climax" of this book, which in itself it's not bad but after that - and even for the duration of this... arc?- my biggest problem was already present and by then I couldn't ignore them anymore. Well, two problems actually, I will call them : Editing and pacing.
The pace of this book is all over the place, literally. Sometimes will drag and sometimes it gets so action packed that you don't know where to look! and for the moments that feel like a drag one can only think: was the editor asleep too? is that the reason why this didn't get a little snip snip? idk.
As for editing, Explain to me how we can get a deus-ex-machina literal resolution but we need like three pages or more (I read digital so I'm not sure in actual pages, I just know it was LONG) of Harry Prismatic. Or why introduce the guild of elevators when they have no relevance to the plot whatsoever? I could keep going. There were so many interesting things here, Harry Prismatic arc was useless to the plot but very interesting in its own right. This is why I mention the need of more editing for this book. The plot was way too convoluted in a very unnecesary way. oh, and I don't mean convoluted in a bad way... I actually think this is a good kind of convoluted. where the author had a lot of amazing ideas that worked really well together if done properly. Sadly, I don't think this book succeded in mixing all of those ideas in a working way and yet as I write this I find myself liking the world of Wild Massive even though I understand very little of its working or why its working at all.
Anyway, I'll go sit on my sad corner to fell sorry for myself because I feel like this book failed me even though it did nothing of the sort.
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Also, the moment with the plot-twist ring was too on the nose for my liking. I'm sure some reader out there will find it hilarious. I was not that reader.
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