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    The Usual Apocalypse

    By Christine Price

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    Relationships can be tricky when people can't lie to you, so Agent Matthew Whitman focuses his unusual powers on solving cases for the Society. When a fellow agent is found murdered, Matt is given a major assignment: find her killer. First he must find Brennan Mitchell, whose brother was a victim in the murdered agent's last case.

    For sixteen years Brennan thought his brother was dead. Now, a Society agent is confronting him with the impossiblehis brother is alive. While Brennan is grateful to be reconnected with his brother, he doesn't want to be pulled into any Society business. But the attraction between Matt and him is electric. After indulging in sensual encounters together, Brennan finds himself drawn into Matt's investigation, and they become embroiled in something much larger than a run-of-the-mill murder case. Something darker and more dangerous than either man could have ever imagined.

    81,000 words
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCarina Press
    Release dateSep 26, 2011
    ISBN9781426892301
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    • 3/5
      There is a lot of REALLY clever stuff in THE USUAL APOCALYPSE. The plot is intricate but well thought out with some excellent twists and turns, neat little clues that make you go, "Oh, good one!" and want to give the protagonist, Matt, a nice high-five when he figures them out. The highpoints of this novel make me really WANT to like it, but (and you can tell this is coming, can't you?)...I didn't.

      Even though the story is great I had to slog through most of THE USUAL APOCALYPSE. I feel like the novel is bloated, like you could shovel out pounds of fat clogging up every scene and dragging down the pace, but at the same time I wanted MORE - more vivid language, a better sense of atmosphere and place, a better physical sense of the world and the characters. My fussy frustrated response has got to be personal taste as much as anything else, but it's hard to be sure.

      Most of my major issues were connected to the romance. The mystery was really, really clever. The romance was not. Matt and Brennan meet cute, they have a casual hookup that develops into something more, they're both a little bit commitment-phobic but over the course of a month they decide to try a real relationship. I kept expecting to find some intersection between Matt's case at the Society and his relationship with Brennan, but it never happened. I think that contributed to my sense of the novel's slow pacing, since there wasn't much conflict between them as a couple.

      Matt's paranormal ability is that people can't lie around him, except, apparently, for Brennan, but I never understood why Brennan was immune. Matt's ability seemed to operate selectively, in general - sometimes people would blurt out things they clearly didn't want to say, but others could evade and distract with seemingly little effort. I wanted to know why that was happening and I wanted to feel Matt actually exercise his ability rather than passively wait to see what happened. I thought, in general, that THE USUAL APOCALYPSE featured some paranormal bells and whistles but wasn't paranormal at heart; the world didn't feel deeply changed or off-kilter to me.

      On the other hand, I thought Price dealt with the issue of Matt's overworking brilliantly. She builds it up as a huge problem and then, when the volcano finally blows, Brennan handled it in a mature way that made me like him so much more.

      At the end of the day, my biggest problem here is that the characters didn't jump out at me. I could describe them, I knew who they were, but they never felt real. I lacked an emotional connection that kept me from loving this book, even though it's brimming with positive qualities.
    • 4/5
      I found this book charming and adorable. I loved the PN aspect and plot, and found Brennan and Matt to be a completely likeable couple. I really enjoyed this book.

      If it has a downside, for me it was just that it wasn't really clear whether threads were to be picked up later or had been dropped. I know it is part of a series, but it didn't feel like a series book ending, with some taste of things to come. The whole book works up this big conspiracy, and in the end 2 little guys get arrested and then they live HEA, and the arrests felt tangential rather than central to the story arc.