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I sort of enjoyed Bubble in much the same way I enjoy a leave your brain at the door, dumb blockbuster movie with someone like Bruce Willis and a load of explosions. The writing isn't great but it had me turning the pages. But oh dear oh dear The plot is a mess, the writing dips to almost Dan Brown levels of bad, Rebecca continues to be 'a male character with tits'. HP has ludicrous abilities, he chain smokes (and it appears it's important to know they are Marlboros) eats bad food (mostly gorby
Oh, Bubble... You Didn't Even Burst. You Just Kind of Leaked. As opposed to Game and Buzz, I did not receive Bubble as an uncorrected-proof ebook. Allegedly, after having submitted reviews for the first two, I was to receive the third from the publisher, but that never happened. There might have been a secret deadline that I failed to meet. Regardless, my NOT having received a free copy of this book has NOT prevented me from providing an honest review here. (I borrowed this book from my libr...
Unbelievably bad ... literally. The writing, which has always been a little ... over the top ... in this series, just got completely out of control, along with the "plot." From HP quoting Bruce Willis' "Yippee ki-ay, motherfucker" to stackingWords!On top!!OF WORDS!!!de la Motte used up all his tricks early on and then just keeps reusing them. It's like watching a bad comedian with one sort-of-funny joke he just keeps retelling, hoping for a second laugh. The worst of the tricks is the constant s...
27/7 - Due to some hasty hold placing at the library I somehow ended up with this book (#3) borrowed before the previous book (#2). Then I did it again with Richelle Mead's Blood Promise and Shadow Kiss, somehow mistaking Blood Promise for the third book in the series, when it's actually the fourth. So I had to quickly get a hold of the next books in both series and read them, so I could get to this and Blood Promise before they were due at the library (they're obviously popular as they immediat...
This all turned out to be a bit much, with too many characters and too many things going on to keep track of what's going on. And that's not even mentioning the confusing nature of the book to begin with. There is not a likable character to be found in these books. HP in particular is completely unlikable. And somehow he manages to survive anything that happens to him, and get out of any scrape he's in. He's like a superhero, except there's no reason why he should be. It's just that's the way th...
Well, the whole idea behind the trilogy isn't bad, it's quite an interesting idea, but I don't like the way it was put on paper at all. I don't like these 'trivial books' where the author doesn't really care about the style of writing and the only important thing is the plot. I found the plot really messy and confusing, I don't know if that was the author's intention. Sometimes I didn't really know what was going on. There was a lot of action but none of it left any consequences or visible resul...
Been a while since I finished an entire book in a day, but I didn't have much to do yesterday and because of the cold we were supposed to save on electricity so it was a good idea to just read.I liked this series because it was solid the entire way through. The plot is ridiculous, but it was that way from the start, there's never really a moment where it you go "oh it has jumped the shark now", you had to sort of accept it from the first page.I do think Anders is good with suspense and even thou...
My Grade = 75% - CThank goodness that I finally finished this miserable trilogy! Book 1, Game, was actually so good that I ordered Books 2 and 3 before I was finished with it. Book 2, Buzz, was so bad that it actually made my eyes bleed. (That was such a great like that I stole it from another Goodreads reviewer of the same book). This book, Book 3, Bubble, was nowhere as good as the first, but quite a bit better than the second.I am so thrilled and relieved to have finally put both behind me, a...
“Bubble” by Anders De La Motte, published by Emily Bestler Books.Category – Mystery/Thriller Publication Date – February 04, 2014“Bubble” is the third book in this trilogy. The first book is “Game” and the second is “Buzz”. If you have been reading my reviews you will know that Henrik Pettersson, known as HP, has become involved in a deadly “Game” that is controlled by the Game Master. What started out as a game involving innocent pranks that paid off in much needed monetary rewards has become a...
I received a copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. I loved this trilogy and did not want to see it end! The story that began with The Game is finally wrapped up in this exciting techno-thriller. The plot is advanced, just as in the last two books, with the action going back and forth between HP and his sister, who is in law enforcement. They finally get to the bottom of who is pulling their strings and it was definitely not who or what I thought! The suspense kept me...
I'm not entirely sure what to think about the end of the Game trilogy. I'm relieved that it is over, and I think I mostly enjoyed it, but there was still a lot that bothered me. I was never sold on the conspiracy theory side; if it had had longer to develop, then maybe the plot of Bubble would have felt far more satisfying. It felt like the character of Rebecca fell apart at the seams. The representation of anxiety and depression, and especially the sheer disdain for it, felt offensive and force...
This is one of the best thrillers I've read recently. I wouldn't have thought it possible for Mr de la Motte actually to improve over his first two novels, but in my opinion with "bubble" he has done just that. His best yet.
Interesting to read, but the plot was just too complex, and slightly implausible. The author deliberately hides information that he springs on you at the end, and we find characters doing things that are not in their personailities, and furthermore opposite to what the author has implicitly, and sometimes explicitly, told us the character was doing. But it was something to read, though near the end I just wanted to finish it already. I was NOT satisfied with the ending and the so-called resoluti...