I finished Wayward by Chuck Wendig this weekend.
The unexpected sequel to Wanderers, another doorstopper of a book I read pre-covid-19 pandemic in Dec 2019. (I also almost never read another Wendig book again after one gratuitously awful part of that book, but here we are)
Wanderers is about a pandemic, artificial intelligence, community, & has a lot of political commentary which continues in Wayward.
The characters are lovable, and I was happy to hear more from them.
@meshell awful in what way? Never read, but Wendig has been on my radar for a little while.
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@2ck @meshell @bookstodon I have not read Wendig's fiction, because it was marketed as horror and I am not up for that. (His books on the craft of writing were well done.) But it seems odd to see someone complaining that a book sold as horror turned out to be horrific
@elysegrasso @bookstodon It is not a horror novel.
@meshell @bookstodon It was described as a horror novel when it came out. That is why I did not read it.
@elysegrasso It was nominated for a Bram Stoker award, so that would seem to put it in the horror category.
@2ck there was a pretty graphic description of sexual assault that I think was unnecessary for character development or whatever he was going for. YMMV.