The Unnoticeables: A Novel (The Vicious Circuit)

I find reviews hard to write and harder to believe. I can usually mutter out things like "great read, great characters, keep the pages turning, fast paced" etc etc. But they start to feel empty or lack a real emphasis. I wish I were more eloquent. Especially when it involves a novel like this. I read the reviews and a few of them kept me from purchasing thus novel for quite awhile. I regret that immensely. I read. I read a lot. As soon as I finish a book, in looking for another. Very few books affect me to the point that this one did. Where you are left satisfied yet yearning. You're happy with the ending but still want more. You loved the characters and would love to know more or see them again but ok if you don't. I read one reviewer's comment about the bad guys in this story and how they thought they lacked and I couldn't disagree more. I thought they were beyond terrifying. This book has everything. I will quickly slip into my standard review here : great book! Awesome heroes. Terrifying villains fast paced action. I highly recommend this book. I'm going to end this review now so I can go get the next in this series.

So let me start with saying the writing style itself is good. This book had interesting ideas but the unsympathetic characters and reliance on sex and gore to shock the reader was over the top. I kept waiting for the main male character to develop or have a story arc but he was just a sexist, sex obsessed drunk the whole time. His inner dialogue was almost painful sometimes.The female lead is really the only character I liked and honestly the only reason I finished the book. She had some interesting encounters with the empty ones but again the author chose to rely on cheap rape scenes and gratuitous gore to shock when they really were already creepy as hell without that. It almost took away from the tension to have them just be violent maniacs.Also the motivation of the angels didn't make much sense. I get them trying to remove wasted energy from people they see as redundant to something else but by the end of the book there didn't seem to be any discression they were just killing everyone? I thought the messaging behind this would lead to a revelation that no lives are worthless even the garbage punk kids have value or something but they just didn't get there.Anyway disappointing you'd be much better off reading David Wong or Grady Hendrix who I think are much more successful in this genre.

It's rare to find horror-comedies that don't tilt wildly to one side or the other, but Robert Brockway's Unnoticeables does a fantastic job of doing just that. With two terrifically unique voices in his leads Kaitlyn and Carey, Brockway finds a way to sneak in funny moment after funny moment through crackling dialogue and fast movement through two time periods. But Brockway counters that with villains that manage to create a terrific sense of creeping dread, skillfully masked in absurd exteriors that somehow serve to make them even more chilling. I'm really looking forward to reading the sequels and more of Brockway's work in general.

As a fan of punk music, and an introvert with my head stuck in a book with every spare moment... I can only say... Beat on the brat with a baseball bat... I mean Go Buy This Book now. Right now. This was an awesome trip between time, different sides of the US, and stubborn punk attitudes that never say die, no matter the situation. Carey, our 1977 devout punk to Kaitlyn, our 2013 LA stunt person. They are great characters, and the flow was flawless in jumping back in forth between their time periods to tell the story of the angels, tar men, mechanic. Perfect story telling. Once you start reading you won't want to put it down. What is human? What would you do for a friend in trouble? How do you retain your humanity, and damn the man in true punk fashion. I think I wouldn't mind a friend like Carey, but pretty sure I can't keep up, or afford his alcohol demand.Seriously, buy, read, and enjoy this book. It is a fantastic ride.

A fantastic horror comedy from Robert Brockway. The main concept of the book is very fascinating and I applaud the author for building such a great story around it as he did. Everything is math, which means everything has a solution. Unfortunately, for simple beings like us, the solution may not seem to be in our own best interest.This story gives us 2 great characters battling the same enemy. Their stories are intertwined, and you know this early on, but the complexity of their entanglement increases as the book moves along. The book is told in 3 separate narratives that provide a very broad glimpse into the world these characters are finding themselves in.The mystery is very rewarding in that you are able to pick up on motifs and come up with your own hypothesis (some of which worked out and others that didn't, in my case). There are a couple of things you won't see coming, which was great.

Robert Brockway has been one of my favorite columnists on Cracked.com for a long time. In fact he's the only writer I read on that website any more. I read his first book " RX: A Tale of Electronegativity" in 2 days a week after it came out. That book was crazy and a ton of fun. When I heard he had another book on the way I already knew I was in."The Unnoticeables" was probably my favorite book of 2015. The story is fascinating in how it jumps forwards and backwards in time and then hits you like a freight train when it all meets up. The characters are wonderful, the bad guys are some of the most creative I've seen in a while, and the story feels a bit like how the movie Constatine should have felt. It's hopeful, depressing, bizarre, and a damn good time.I cannot wait for the next two books in the series.

I've just finished David Wong's latest episode in the "John Dies at the End" series, and am now reading this for the second time. They're easy to compare. Brockway's humour is more constrained, and his Lovecraftian horrors don't manage to penetrate as psychologically as Wong's, but I have to admit, he's got much better prose.

Great concept for a story. Characters come to life due to the detail, their mannerisms and thoughts and actions! Super book....bow on to the next book in the series.

Not a book full of eloquently put turns of phrase or one for those easily offended. But for those who like a story that's a mix of daft humour with elements of horror that in no way takes itself seriously then give this a bash. It's a thin book with large font, so it makes a good travel companion if you're taking a long flight or bus ride.

Great read- loved the characters although the story got a little bit convoluted!! Will buy the next book in the series to see what they get up to in London!

A really solid book. Good, full characters and a well connected plot. The universe that "The Unnoticeables" takes place in felt grand like a Stephen King world. It felt that there was much more happening that we couldn't see and that we didn't need to/want to see. I would happily return to this universe for a sequel or a parallel story.