The Razor
2.0 Stars
2-5-2022

A book that has moments of promise before dissolving into a mediocre action movie. There's bits of Pitch Black, there's bits of Dead Space, there's various people stuck on a terrible prison planet that becomes more terrible as legendary killers, government bio-weapons, and alien artifacts come into play. This is making the book sound more exciting than it is, but really the last half of the book had the feeling of an action movie template, even if I could not quite describe the template itself. Maybe the author had a copy of _Save the Cat_ open beside him? Anyway the book was not leaning into the strengths of the novel as a medium. The writing was often fine, but it dipped more and more frequently into the bare-bones & skeletal as the script progressed.