Yo guys!
Joe here with a new review for you all!
Today I’m going to be reviewing ‘Billy and the
Cloneasaurus’ by Stephen Kozeniewski.
Heres the blurb to get you intrigued:
Six billion identical clones make up the entire population of
Earth, and William 790-6 (57th Iteration) is exactly like everybody else. In
his one year of life he will toil in suburban mediocrity and spend as much cash
as possible in order to please his corporate masters. When 790’s first birthday (and scheduled execution) finally rolls around,
a freak accident spares his life.
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This book was a really good-weird-fun read!
I got this book from the author for an honest review.
This was possibly the weirdest book I’ve read and possibly will
ever read, the author really does know how to make a really interesting story
out of a strange concept!
After reading a-lot of his strange, irregular stories, it’s
would’ve been safe to say ‘I’ve gotten used to his strange way of writing’ but
this story took me by surprise.
William 790-6 is your regular every-day guy, he goes to work in
Williomton (which is in Williamerica), he goes to the pub with his friends -
who are also called William - and drinks olde Williame; he does everything
within the rules and regulations, even when he goes to die, but yet; something
happened that day which changed William 790-6’s life forever, he didn’t die -
he survived his first birthday… No William's has ever done this in the history
of Williams.
The story was very well written and it was so strange that I
practically read every chapter twice.
I finished this book fairly quickly (apologies for late review -
Uni has been draining) and I ended it with ‘what’ because of how quickly it
ended.
To me the story worked well because it was a quick - get tot he
point - story; this made it very enthralling and very paced due to the fact so
much happened in a short space of time.
The main elements of the story that I didn’t really grasp was
that it is called ‘Billy and the Cloneasaurus’ but yet we see pretty much a
chapter with ‘Billy and the Cloneasaurus’, not to be a titular line concept,
but I kind-of got a sense of misguidance. (I thought the story would be that
the main William would create this dinosaur/clone through accidental science;
slightly wrong, slightly right)
The story did make me laugh and it made me wonder, but it also
made me scrunch my face up in confusion a few times - Though maybe that was
what the author wanted from his audience, to figure out the weird and place it
in to the wonderful.
The characters were cleverly designed. Every William was the
same as every other William, which was
that they were mostly wooden characters.
By this I mean they were not rebellious, they followed
each-other like sheep, they were all ‘designed’ a certain way and had the exact
same traits.
But when William 790-6 came onto the scene, the authors writing
really shined as it showed the dynamic change in 790-6’s character the moment
he survived his first birthday, which was that he became slack to the rules and
the way he allowed himself to manipulate his attitude and to manipulate his
friends.
The other characters that appeared later in the book were pretty
well created as-well - they had a simplistic back-story which made them
mysterious and enjoyable… and I like that, I genuinely had a nice personal
connection with William at some points within this book.
In all fairness, I really do like this author and this might
seem like a genuine bias, I haven’t read a bad piece of work from him yet. Yes
there are points in Billy and The Cloneasaurus that made me question what kind
of book this was, or why the author had written that; but at the end of the
book I found myself thinking how clever and witty this author was, which is
pretty much why I enjoy his books as they make you question and think
everything over, no other author has done that to me.
Overall - I enjoyed this book, it had a fulfilling storyline,
the characters were implemented well and developed quite personally.
I urge you to read this authors work, if you don’t fancy this
one then you can try one of these two books:
As you will truly find a great author within these books of
strange consequences and weird characters.
Again, thank you for sticking with me while uni steals me away
from you guys.
You’re all awesome.
Thanks, see ya on the flip side guys.
Joe :)
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