Showing posts with label Marcus Holborn. Show all posts
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Friday, July 5, 2013

The Reformation of Hugberry Mullett, Marcus Holborn

The Reformation of Hugberry Mullett by Marcus Holborn got me at the title.  I like weird names and this one was immediately interesting to me.

Started: 6/13/2013
Completed: 6/28/2013
Recommendation: Don't waste your time
Recommended By:  Freebooksifter.com

Review:

This book is a one trick pony.  It steals story lines from popular stories and segues between them by using confusion.  The story lines just barely hang together and the equivalence of beauty with a "heavy chest"  reveals more about the author than Hugberry.  Opening the book with statutory rape almost had me setting it down and I really wish I had done so.  The character does not seem to reform and the work seems like a self-indulgent "fix the world" traipse through the author's still-born fantasies mixed with some riff on religions of all kinds.  The names, however, were pretty good.  He did that well.