I was sold on the suggested appeal for lovers of Lauren Beukes, and then I read the blurb. OMG I need this book in my life, NOW.
Proving that he's not just a one-trick pony, and that Bait was no debut fluke, J. Kent Messum manages to successfully imbue an old science fiction trope with new life (pun intended) in Husk.Set in a not-too-distant future, Husk finds humanity on the brink of self-annihilation. The people of the Unit...
I don't read much science fiction but Husk appealed because it sounded so different. Rhodes is a 'husk', basically he is willing to rent out his body to people who are willing to pay. When he starts to experience flashbacks and minor injuries he feels less happy about his career. Other members of th...
“Husk”is a brilliantly imaginative, high tech thriller with some great characters which is very dark and totally addictive – speculative fiction with a real world authentic feel. So if you are rich you don’t have to die. You can be downloaded into a virtual life and occasionally hire a “Husk” – basi...
It's not often that I can look at a book blurb and wholeheartedly agree, but Bait: A Novel is, in fact, a case of "Jaws meets Lord of the Flies meets Drugstore Cowboy!" About the only thing I might add to that is, "in the style of early Richard Bachman." To help celebrate this year's Shark Week, J...
BAIT, by J. Kent Messum, is a mostly soulless experience loaded with cardboard characters and buckets of chum with which gorehounds may satiate their ravenous appetites. I read this over two months ago, yet waited to review it. To this day, I can't say that I liked a single thing in this novel, as...
Gerald Francis McCabe, he thought. That’s who I was-He was struck from every angle and with every measure of force. Blood bloomed thick around him. Tick did not resurface.Nearby, beer bottles clicked, cigars burned, and significant money exchanged hands. Six heroin addicts, strangers to each othe...
Shark-infested waters.A group of hopeless drug addicts.A bunch of ex-soldiers with questionable motives.The purest dope you'll ever find.I'm not really interested in reading about a couple junkies fight for heroin, but I was intrigued with the possible conflicts that could come with this. Oh, the dr...
It's not often that I can look at a book blurb and wholeheartedly agree, but Bait: A Novel is, in fact, a case of "Jaws meets Lord of the Flies meets Drugstore Cowboy!" About the only thing I might add to that is, "in the style of early Richard Bachman."What J. Kent Messum has crafted here is a dark...
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