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Satellite City, sometime in the third millennium. A vast metropolis,
controlled by a giant satellite. Twenty-five million people
inhabit the city, and Cosmo Hill is one of them. A fourteen
year old whose parents cannot be traced - he lives in an orphanage,
where the children are used as guinea pigs for genetically
modified food or untested chemical products. Cosmo escapes,
but the attempt almost costs him is life. As he lies wounded
on a rooftop, ghostly blue Parasites attempt to suck out his
remaining life force. He is rescued in the nick of time by
three youths who are on a mission to kill Parasites. They
take Cosmo under their wing - and his life will never be the
same again...
The
Supernaturalist is
really slow going - and, for the most part, not particularly
engaging. I found it really hard to connect with the characters
and for the majority of this audio book I was routing for
the Parasites.
I'm
not sure how much of this was down to the actual writing,
or the delivery of the narrator. Jack
Davenport's voice characteristics are unintentionally amusing
in places - although given the number of accents he has to
attempt, he doesn't do too bad a job. But his delivery seemed
a little too overly dramatic.
At
it's heart, this wants to be - and should be - a good, solid
sci fi story. But somewhere along the line it looses the plot.
Where are the believable characters and the engaging plot
that make you want to carry on listening?
Sadly,
The Supernaturalist is nothing like the blurb on the
back cover might suggest. It certainly is not "Blade
Runner meets Ghostbusters."
Nick
Smithson
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