Colleen Winter

Very weak

The idea that a new invention that does a lot of good turns out to have really bad side effects is the basis of most zombie and runaway disease stories. Here it is a machine that gathers free energy from the earth's atmosphere and converts it into electricity but that it starts grabbing the wrong kinds of energy, causing a plague. There is nothing wrong with reusing the invention gone wrong trope, but the book needs to be much better written than this one. There are so many holes in this story that it would be boring to list them. One of the biggest – or maybe littlest – is that somehow the Canadian tundra has no mosquitoes. Either the author forgot them or somehow all the scientists on earth did.

The cover of the book is so absolutely inappropriate it made me mad.

I received a review copy of "The Gatherer" by Colleen Winter from Rebel Base Books through NetGalley.com.… (más)