Finished Reading: Plague by Graham Masterton 📚
Well, this definitely was a break from reading Dungeon Crawler Carl. I think I was expecting something a little bit different (not sure what exactly) but what I got was a badly-aged book from the seventies where all the guy characters seemed to be dickheads, and all the women characters didn’t seem to be actual characters at all, they were just a pair of boobs. Seriously, every time a new female character is introduced we get to learn about their boobs, and basically nothing else about them. Mate.
Some scenes were really gross and definitely didn’t need to be there and that’s all I’m saying there. I’m not gonna get into the way that Black and LGBTQ+ characters were written. I can’t figure out if it’s a product of its time, if the author actually believes that shite or if he was trying to make some commentary. No idea but it wasn’t good.
So I ended up just kind of hate-reading it all the way to the end. Several years ago I read a book called Night of the Crabs which was just as terrible, but it knew it was terrible, plus it was pretty short, so it actually was kind of entertaining. Plague was old-fashioned in the worst sense of the word.
I borrowed this from the library and have since read on Goodreads that it got a re-release in 2020, because of Covid( so maybe that’s why it was on BorrowBox). I… don’t get why anyone would choose this book to re-publish in 2020. Very strange.