Breed out the Scary

[tmwriter70]

Breeding Ground was an interesting novel to read. I liked the premise, although, having a pregnant wife didn’t make the opening of this novel easy to read. I would read some, then put my hand on my wife’s belly and feel our son kicking and think it was some spider thing eating her from the inside out. Because of that, this book was all the more

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That Sex Scene

[alexagrave]

People may have to call me a prude, too, because I didn't like that sex scene in the bathroom either! I think, for me, it jarred with the story too much. It plain didn't fit. Why exactly did Pinborough want to show that her main character needed to reassert his dominance, and why exactly did it have to be with sex? The beginning of the novel starts out with a sex scene as well, but that's not as graphic. If she wanted to set a precedent for graphic sex scenes, she should have done it right there at the beginning. Graphic sex scenes have their place (I mean, I read Laurell K. Hamilton, and she can get pretty graphic), but it just didn't mesh with this novel, in my opinion. Kind of like she threw in a bit of rough sex for the shock factor....

-Lori

[ext_267317]

I agree with many of your criticisms of this book! I thought the pacing was strange at times, almost like everything was rushed to resemble more of a film than a novel--so your complaint of the world falling apart so quickly to me is valid. Matheson's isolation in "I Am Legend" was a slow, steady burn of description and was ever present. This was like 1, 2, 3: and everybody's gone! And you mention jabs toward the male audience--I don't know if Pinborough was overtly slamming men, but I do agree that her portrayal of Matthews was a bit preprogrammed and chauvanistic (again, like a horrible movie cliche). Her protrayal of men seemed very inauthentic...so I guess just by writing men that way, she did inadvertantly slam them. I wonder how much of this came from her mind, and how much of it was influenced by film, media, and what the "popular fiction audience" expect from a woman

[anonymous]

I totally forgot about the whole thing with the blood of the deaf characters being so deadly. What was that about? I don't see how that could even fit in with the genetically modified food explanation that was provided. Good point!
SLHB