The explanation given for how the ring virus became a cancer doesn't make sense, especially with the virus being coded from within a virtual reality simulation that was made to emulate our world exactly. This book is a huge cop out written to undermine the apocalyptic buildup of the first two books. The question is asked, but the answer is "I don't know." All I can say is, there's no logical reason given for why the ring virus was even possible in the first place. I want to break down why it's such a massive failure, but I can't without spoilers.
Passages speak of a woman's "sex organ" and her "fluids" in such a way that all I could do was shake my head at the consistently clinical tone.Īnd then the punchline came, and I got pissed. Following intimate scenes and thoughts are worded in such a way as to negate any stimulating reaction. His mother Machiko is flat and more a background noise than a functioning character, and his romantic interest, Reiko, is seduced in a clinical description that makes their first time together sound like rape. Kaoru is a bland character, and his "loving dad," Hideyuki, comes off as creepy, but isn't quite creepy enough to provoke a reaction. While I felt the first books were creepy and scary in some parts, if a bit dry, this book is dry as a bone left in the middle of a desert, and there's nothing I can feel for the story or the characters. I finally reached that point and got started, and for the first 400 pages, I didn't feel anything at all. It put me off of reading it, so I figured I'd just set aside until I forgot the finer points of the synopsis.
I knew eventually I'd have to read Loop to complete this series, but when I initially couldn't find a copy of it anywhere, I opted to Wiki it, and read the basic synopsis.
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