Once things go to hell, the reader isn’t quite clear on the consequences if the thieves are captured. In regard to motivation and stakes, not much would change for the protagonist if she did not go through with the heist. Overall, I wanted the characters to have more layers, stronger stakes, and gripping motivation. However, their involvement and peril did little to bother Bristol, which made the protagonist less likeable. Tons of things about the novella make it an entertaining read, including the cool world building, the female criminals, and the inclusion of a mysterious non-binary ally in Marquis, who had the potential to be a standout secondary character. RUN WITH THE HUNTED is a futuristic Oceans Eight, but with a much smaller, less developed cast of characters on a simpler, less conflict-laden mission. However, the diamond heist Bristol engineers has unexpected consequences, when the jewels turn out to be more than simply pretty. Dolly handles the weapons and the muscle. I can tell she’s scared right now, but not how scared, on a scale of spiders to snipers.”īristol is the mastermind and the inside woman, who has the soft skills to both dazzle and manage the human aspects of a job. “I look at Bits, but her facial expression is rarely of any help. The fashionista of a protagonist favors fabulous couture that also serves as armor. RUN WITH THE HUNTED involves the theft of gemstones including an enormous and exotic blue diamond. The reader or viewer is seduced by the lengths the thieves will go to score their bounty. Who doesn’t love heists? From THE ITALIAN JOB to the OCEANS franchise to THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR, heist stories often offer glamour, high stakes, and danger. I feel like Donohue was trying to leave that open with some of the small reveals of backstory sprinkled through the pages. I'd read another book with these characters. That's how you do it, and honestly that alone was worth the fair price of admission.
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One more bonus: Bristol's assertive and perfect example of how to correct someone when they misuse a person's pronouns. Occasionally I couldn't tell who said what, but it never interfered with the story itself, just my reading. I could have used a little more camera in these spots to help me move with the characters. There were some issues for me with enjambment of transitional scenes. It flows up and down like a river raft ride rather than barreling along like a train, and that's crucial. All the boxes are ticked, but not in a ticking-boxes kind of way. There's world-building that evokes clear images and sounds. There's tech, but not so much your eyes glaze over.
Everyone is believable and unique and fun. The search for freedom continues, but this time the path is pointed inwards, into ourselves.I love a heist story - who doesn't? And of course, the characters are key. Lyrically we have been inspired by both classic and obscure dystopian literature, finding suitably horrible metaphors for the decline of western society. On this record, we decided to push the melodic strains even further, but without losing either intensity or brutality. Run With The Hunted was recorded in both Studio Fredman in Gothenburg (At the Gates, In Flames, Martyrdöd), by Fredrik Nordström and Henrik Udd, and in Sunlight Studio (Dismember, Entombed, Grave) in Stockholm, by Tomas Skogsberg.ĭeclares WOLFBRIGADE of the new album, “We looked to explore our rawness, writing straight-up, in-your-face, primitive songs. A concentrated sense of urgency lines the entire record, while a fragmented sense of dystopia fuels the scathing vocal wrath. WOLFBRIGADE’s Run With The Hunted surges with ten brutalizing new tracks which elevate both the harsh intensity and the melodic attributes of the band’s patented, penetrating, d-beat-ridden hardcore crust punk to new extremes of infectious viciousness.
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