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The Whore Of New Slum - T.A. Chase 2.5 Stars

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Although the storyline and the concept of this novella had quite a lot of potential, The Whore of New Slum failed to deliver and disappointed with the incompetent dialogues.

This story is located in one of the poorest borough in New City. People who live in New Slum are trapped there, they are not allowed to move through other borough or even live into other countries. In addition they are despicably treated with injustice and the Black Cough disease has the population dying in fairly young age. The dream of growing old is just that, a dream.

In the midst of this horrible life Wendall meets Abdur. Wendall a whore who has never entertained the dream of ever founding love, and Abdur, a captured soldier whose life is worth only for experiments that have changed him into half human half machine and has no hope to ever feel another person’s touch or intimacy. Their fall for each other in first sight and together they try to escape the life of New Slum or the fate that awaits Abdur in the military facilities.

But Wendall is not what he seems; he might be just a whore but his influence and dreams are beyond Abdur’s imagination. Together they will start war and claim a right to live freely when no one will ever give it to them.

As I said the concept has so many potentials. It has a touch of Hunger Games in that they are trapped in their “district” and they are forced to inhale coal from the day they are born, still I believe that it would be a great read if handled properly. That is not the case though and the dialogues nearly killed my tolerance on the “sappy”. The escalation of the character’s relationship was absurd; in three days they were ready to make promises and not to mention trust, the amount of trust they lay upon each other when complete strangers was just utterly unbelievable.

The opportunities to make this book at least a bit more agreeable were plenty but the author failed to exploit them. So many chances to provide a nice action scene, such as the mage’s rescue effort, or the soldiers searching parties, were left unused. The character’s personality was in shades and vagueness and the love that occurred between them had no real base to stand upon. The intimate scenes as well were pretty lukewarm and the emotional charge that could be outstanding was lost.

As much as I liked the storyline the end product just didn’t do anything for me. Plus I was left with the impression that this might be a series even though there is no mention on the site that a new installment will follow, so if this was it, it simply wasn’t good enough.

Thommie