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"Scotto Moore's Wild Massive is a glorious web of lies, secrets, and humor in a breakneck, nitrous-boosted saga of the small rejecting the will of the mighty. Welcome to the Building, an infinitely tall skyscraper in the center of the multiverse, where any floor could contain a sprawling desert oasis, a cyanide rain forest, or an entire world. Carissa loves her elevator. Up and Down she goes, content with the sometimes chewy food her reality fabricator spits out, as long as it means she doesn't have to speak to another living person. But when a mysterious shapeshifter from an ambiguous world lands on top of her elevator, intent on stopping a plot to annihilate hundreds of floors, Carissa finds herself stepping out of her comfort zone. She is forced to flee into the Wild Massive network of theme parks in the Building, where technology, sorcery, and elaborate media tie-ins combine to form impossible ride experiences, where every guest is a VIP, the roller coasters are frequently safe, and if you don't have a valid day pass, the automated defense lasers will escort you from being alive. Wild Massive: The #1 destination for interdimensional war. Rate us on VacationAdvisor! "This is a stand-alone novel with material enough for six...By the halfway point, it had blown my mind twice... an audacious, genre-bending whirlwind." -The New York Times on Battle of the Linguist Mages Also Available by Scotto Moore: Your Favorite Band Cannot Save You Battle of the Linguist Mages"--… (mais)
Having been underwhelmed by Moore's "Battle of the Linguist Mages," which passed the fifty-page test but went radically off the rails, I approached this book in the spirit of "impress me." That I finished this novel and have basically positive feelings about it demonstrates that I must have been impressed; it was a near run thing though. For the story that Moore is telling this novel is really about 100 pages too long, and does get bogged down in it's overlapping plots to no real point. Also, many of the characters are just place-holders to actuate plot points, and inspire no affection, anger, or even have much of an impact as allegorical symbols. That said, the characters that Moore actually does seem invested in developing did inspire caring, and the narrative payoff did feel like it was worth the investment of time. What this book demonstrates is the limits of cool ideas as a justification for reading genre fiction, but I do expect to be giving Moore's next novel a chance. ( )
"Scotto Moore's Wild Massive is a glorious web of lies, secrets, and humor in a breakneck, nitrous-boosted saga of the small rejecting the will of the mighty. Welcome to the Building, an infinitely tall skyscraper in the center of the multiverse, where any floor could contain a sprawling desert oasis, a cyanide rain forest, or an entire world. Carissa loves her elevator. Up and Down she goes, content with the sometimes chewy food her reality fabricator spits out, as long as it means she doesn't have to speak to another living person. But when a mysterious shapeshifter from an ambiguous world lands on top of her elevator, intent on stopping a plot to annihilate hundreds of floors, Carissa finds herself stepping out of her comfort zone. She is forced to flee into the Wild Massive network of theme parks in the Building, where technology, sorcery, and elaborate media tie-ins combine to form impossible ride experiences, where every guest is a VIP, the roller coasters are frequently safe, and if you don't have a valid day pass, the automated defense lasers will escort you from being alive. Wild Massive: The #1 destination for interdimensional war. Rate us on VacationAdvisor! "This is a stand-alone novel with material enough for six...By the halfway point, it had blown my mind twice... an audacious, genre-bending whirlwind." -The New York Times on Battle of the Linguist Mages Also Available by Scotto Moore: Your Favorite Band Cannot Save You Battle of the Linguist Mages"--
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