Vile, convoluted writing ruins “The Waking Engine”
While first-time author David Edison’s novel, “The Waking Engine,” is founded around an intriguing concept, the results prove anything but. Edison does nothing worth while with the idea of life after death, as the story’s defining crux remains largely unexplored, boiling the novel down to a convoluted and, at times, a disgusting mess in terms of both the novel’s story and organization.
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