Cages Book One eBook Chris Pasley
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As long as Sam Crafty can remember, adults have feared their children.
Since the Outbreak ten percent of all teenagers transform spontaneously and without warning into horrible, parasite-spreading Beasts. This monstrous tide threatened to destroy the world, but the survivors persevered and kept the parasite at bay by creating Quarantines, rigid prisons to hold their children through volatile puberty into the safety of adulthood.
For Sam, incarceration is freedom. The child of damaged Outbreak survivors, he relishes the day he can unleash the tricks his brother James taught him and make his mark on the world. The tyrannical principal who would happily see him dead? A worthy adversary. His chemically-obsessed roommate who keeps trying to build a dirty bomb? A useful pawn. His own debilitating fear of becoming a monster himself? Well… he’s not really ready for that one.
Cages is a deceptively easy to read page-turner concealing a deep coming of age story. How do we develop our own identities among a sea of external influences? Will we take on our parents’ neuroses? Our brothers’ lost dreams? Or… will we go wild?
Cages Book One eBook Chris Pasley
This book wasn't bad. It wasn't great. Overall it struck me as mediocre. The premise was an interesting one. Set in a post-zombie-apocalypse world, the parasites that cause the infection live in children and each child has approximately a 10% chance to become a monster called a Beast during puberty. Beasts create bitten, otherwise known as traditional zombies. Not to mention slaughtering pretty much everything in sight.So, the solution? Lock kids in a mix between a high security prison and middle school/high school. If they turn, kill 'em.
Sounds good.
It was interesting, but not captivating. I debated putting it aside for other books I wanted to read more but felt that I owed it to the story to finish it.
The writing style wasn't my favorite. There's a lot of telling instead of showing and a lot of random flashbacks that are not outlined as being different from the standard timeline. No large breaks in the page, no asterisks, no nothing. One paragraph is present, then suddenly we're in the past. It's jarring.
The characters were another issue for me. Even the main character comes off as somewhat flat and not well rounded. The 'bad guy' isn't one dimensional, but the development of his personality and actions is very predictable. There were no characters in this book that I could really connect with, which is an issue when you've got a coming of age book. You really have to feel and sympathize with the characters to get something out of that sort of story, and I just didn't. We meet a lot of characters through the course of the book, and virtually none of them are fleshed out beyond a few sentences about how they interact with the main character. Again, nothing to really draw the reader in.
Strangely enough, I felt no sense of danger reading this. The atmosphere just didn't grab me. Even the end of the book, while open to a sequel, didn't leave me with any interest to continue with the series.
It's worth a read if you like the teen coming of age genre, I suppose. It was short and it was cheap. So I don't feel like I wasted anything. I got through it in a day.
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Cages Book One eBook Chris Pasley Reviews
Recently I haven't had much luck with Young Adult novels. I've stopped reading several of them because they just didn't hold my interest. I'm not sure if this story would be categorized as Young Adult. On the one hand, the main characters are teenagers. On the other, there's a fair amount of violence in the book.
Sorry, I get distracted. On with the review! It took me a little while to get involved in the story, but after a little while, it became very engrossing. The second half becomes a real page-turner, exactly how I like my books. This book is a unique take on the Zombie apocalypse genre, and one that I think is quite well done.
Unlike some other novels in a series, this novel actually has some resolution at the end of the story. (See some of my other reviews, lambasting books that just stop, not end.) The big disappointment, however, is that as soon as I finished this novel, I went looking for the sequel, but it was nowhere to be found. I hope the author finishes it soon.
Through one of the 'free kindle books' emails, I ended up acquiring this book for free! I have so many unread free books on my kindle, and there are some that I started to read and was unable to finish because of how awful they are, and some I finish anyway, because I greatly dislike leaving things unfinished!
I had no such problem with 'Cages' - I finished it in a few short days. I am looking forward to #2!
I enjoy zombie books, and most post-apocalyptic books, this was a great read because it wasn't the a-typical zombie book, with a protagonist that must triumph over zombies, and he does of course in the end. Instead, I feel like this book is a mash-up of a zombie book, an alien/monster sort of book, and an adolescent facing the trials of high school..except the high school is a lot worse than anything a normal kid would have to face!
Now I see the price is $2.99 - well worth it in my opinion, give it a try! I hope the sequel is equally priced.
This story is one that grows on you and gets better as you read.
Through most of this story I struggled to adjust to the authors writing style.
There were times I almost put this book down because the constant references to old books, political events, and even songs kept pulling me out of "the moment" of the story.
Another flaw in this story was that there were times during the middle of an action scene the main character would reflect back upon things that his father, brother and mother said. These distractions break the integrity of the scene and left me in a "What the hell0" moment.
If it were not for these breaks, I would give the story five stars.
Here is why I liked the book so much
The characters are original, fully fleshed out. I was able to bond to them and see them clearly in my mind.
The authors take on parasitic zombies is fresh and stands out for its originality.
The plot plays out nicely, with a fair amount of twists that kept me entertained.
The settings were described well and easy to envision.
There is a cliff hanger ending, but that is to be expected in a first book of a series.
I recommend this book (series) to readers of the Post Apocalypse, Dystopian, Action Combat, and Horror genre.
This book wasn't bad. It wasn't great. Overall it struck me as mediocre. The premise was an interesting one. Set in a post-zombie-apocalypse world, the parasites that cause the infection live in children and each child has approximately a 10% chance to become a monster called a Beast during puberty. Beasts create bitten, otherwise known as traditional zombies. Not to mention slaughtering pretty much everything in sight.
So, the solution? Lock kids in a mix between a high security prison and middle school/high school. If they turn, kill 'em.
Sounds good.
It was interesting, but not captivating. I debated putting it aside for other books I wanted to read more but felt that I owed it to the story to finish it.
The writing style wasn't my favorite. There's a lot of telling instead of showing and a lot of random flashbacks that are not outlined as being different from the standard timeline. No large breaks in the page, no asterisks, no nothing. One paragraph is present, then suddenly we're in the past. It's jarring.
The characters were another issue for me. Even the main character comes off as somewhat flat and not well rounded. The 'bad guy' isn't one dimensional, but the development of his personality and actions is very predictable. There were no characters in this book that I could really connect with, which is an issue when you've got a coming of age book. You really have to feel and sympathize with the characters to get something out of that sort of story, and I just didn't. We meet a lot of characters through the course of the book, and virtually none of them are fleshed out beyond a few sentences about how they interact with the main character. Again, nothing to really draw the reader in.
Strangely enough, I felt no sense of danger reading this. The atmosphere just didn't grab me. Even the end of the book, while open to a sequel, didn't leave me with any interest to continue with the series.
It's worth a read if you like the teen coming of age genre, I suppose. It was short and it was cheap. So I don't feel like I wasted anything. I got through it in a day.
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