What is your opinion?
Walker of the Wasted Waze
"Good story."
Walker of the Wasted Wazw
"Amazing. Truly powerful and unique. A masterpiece of fiction and art commingled in one. Walker will change you forever. I can't wait for the other installments."
Lost me in chapter one
"A long flashback that is meant to tell the story of why Zildjan walked the broken post-Apocalypse wastelands. The Good: Clear transitions. Consistent characters. Few grammar mistakes. The Meh: Anachronisms. Telling style. "Killing solves all problems." The Ugly: Initial anti-hook. Dialogue circles. No resolution. More on the Good: Transitions: It's very easy to tell what's a dream, read from a computer screen, dialogue, and narrative. Characters: There are very few, all serve a clear purpose to the narrative and remain consistent from start to finish. Grammar: The few mistakes I noticed could easily be cleared up with simple proofread techniques. The 'Meh' are generally things that don't appeal to me personally, i.e. nothing actionable unless they appear in multiple reviews. Anachronisms: Entry blurb states that the year is 3450 but the content of the story makes it seem a generation or two removed from a 20 year-long near total Apocalypse that started in 2040. Style: Long info-dumps. Telling descriptions that mean that the narrator talks directly to the reader (although this was made much more tolerable because we learn in chapter 1 that the MC is telling his story to someone else). Death as a Resolution: Kill everything just doesn't appeal to me as a way to solve *all* conflicts - even if it is justified by the story's circumstances. 'The Ugly' are Issues that, IMO, are significant flaws within the story. The Hook - Chapter 1 is meant to draw the reader in, inform us of the central conflict, and get us invested in the characters. There are unclear descriptions, talking dead, Point-of-view hopping, and a disconnected voice. Which means that, rather than being hooked into the story, I seriously considered stopping with chapter 1. Dialogue Circles - Several conversations rambled on and on and were as unconvincing and directionless as they were long. Resolution: There's no clear ending to this story, just the promise of more. There's a little bit of disconnect between what's promised in the blurb and chapter 1 and what happens in the story. My first read through of chapter one was confusing - but it made a little more sense after getting through the rest of the story (I'll highlight and send some specific things that make no sense no matter how I read them). I have to conclude that chapter 1 is meant to start a series of stories, not just the one told in this book. Keep writing, which is to say, Edit, Edit, Edit! You have a talent for telling stories that will only grow stronger the more you write and polish what you write."
