Delve Into The Unnoticeables Engineered By Robert Brockway Released As Paperbound

picked it up because the premise sounded much like a tabletop rpg that I enjoyed, And because it sounded like a good fantasy/horror read overall, with edgy settings and an intriguingly unlikely team of main characters.
I'm sorry to report that the novel is lifeless, The characters are devoid of personalities, There is a string of events, but not plot development, Throughout reading, I kept thinking, wow, where were the world's editors when this thing was published I've said it before and I'll say it again: if there's something Cracked.
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This one, the first novel I got from Mr, Brockway, is no exception: I just couldn't put it down from start to finish, devoring the digital pages of my kindle one after another.
The presentation is excellent, the worldbuilding is superb and I just love how interconnected the two narrators one, a punk kid in a's New York the other, a female stuntdouble in presentday Los Angeles become, as well as how their narratives are structured.
Also: Wash is awesome, and should be in every book, ever made,

Some passages are really gorey, in a borderlinepornographic, bodyhorror sort of way which elicits the same reaction from the characters as it does the reader: impact, mindsnappingshut, a refusal to keep on watching

and just wanting to turn back the pages after reading them, of course.
Others are plain hilarious, in that special brand of humor I thoroughly enjoy,

And the mythos that carry the plot forward! The Angels, the Tar Men, the Unnoticeables, the Empty Ones.
. . I want to keep on reading about them, about their history, their relation with the Mechanic, their past and future and their interactions with that pesky unsolved equation called humanity.


My only complaint, and the one reason this one won't end up in my favorites shelf even though I was so certain it would, for most of the journey, is that I found the novel's ending to be rather subdued when compared to the rompstop that is the rest of the journey.
Almost as if Mr Brockway was either more of a tease than your regular playmate cover, or as if he decided to cut some content in hopes that it can be made into a second volume.


I'd rather not imagine the author's naked body artfully covered with sand on some anynomous beach, So I'm crossing my fingers its the second, because I'd really really love to delve deeper into this world.
I liked it. Sort of Nick Harkaway/Petrovichstyle Simon Morden, but not quite as good as either,

I know what happened, but I'm not entirely sure why and I wasn't left with any impression that the author did.
Maybe he'll explain in a later book, sitelinkMon avis en Français

sitelinkMy English review

As soon as I saw the word angels , I was intrigued by the story.
Moreover, I must say that we have a fairly specific vision of these beings and they are often always kind and caring.
Its true that it was quite surprising that the author did not play on this table and at the same time, this is what is the most intriguing.
Its a completely different story from what we usually have,

We follow in this novel three different points of view, although it is actually two, I will start ith the first of them which appears infrequently, These chapters do not last very long and are spread out on a few pages, It must be said that it is quite difficult to really locate this character, The name is never given and everything remains rather vague but we understand that the protagonist is evolving through a phase that will change him forever.
As I said these passages are difficult to pinpoint, but as we advance in the story we understand a bit more about whats going on.


But now back to the two other points of view that we actually follow throughout history, We first follow a young punk, Carey, evolving in, a street boy who only thinks of girls and of drinking beer all day.
But everything changes the day he discovers that some strange creatures live in the city, creatures that seem to kidnap and kill some of his friends.
Refusing to let go, Carey is determined to understand what is happening and to place himself in the path of these anomalies to complicate their task.


Secondly, we follow Kaitlyn, a young woman living in Hollywood inand who wishes to become a stunt unlike many girls working there.
Things start to get weird when she realizes that an angel lives not far from her street but everything messes up when at a party, she meets with her childhood idol.
Marco has it all, or that is certainly the case until he starts acting strangely Because of that, our heroine tries to avoid him like the plague.
Moreover, as her best friend disappears, Kaitlyn will end up just like Carey in a world she does not know about.
But fortunately, the young woman will cross the path of Carey to help her in her quest,

I loved to follow this story, It was interesting to play between the past and present protagonists, Carey is found in both parts while he passes from a main to a secondary character and its true that it was interesting to see what he became and what happened exactly.
We easily like both and we stay passionate by all the events they go through to understand more about these strange angels.
I found that the author had perfectly created an unusual atmosphere for his novel and the story itself is very different from what Ive read so far.


Yes I was quickly carried away by all this and I had a great time with the whole novel.
I am curious to read more about the writings of the author at present, Originally reviewed at sitelinkBookwraiths,

Part horror, part fantasy, part scifi, and one hundred percent entertaining, The Unnoticeables is a punk rock opus, where the creepy, the graphic, and the humorous come together to create something ever so delectable.
Robert Brockways delicious tale of the paranormal doing its very best to encourage you to come unhinged but only in the very best of ways.


Three different points of view drive this story, In New York Citys punk rock scene of, Carey is a young punk, happy to chase after his next girl and his next beer all day long.
But things change when he witnesses a “Tar Man” up close, This urban legend coming to life before his eyes the unbelievable rumors of these weird creatures kidnaping and killing people suddenly not complete garbage anymore.
And when these damn things begin coming after his friends, Carey decides to do what he does best: be a royal pain in the ass.


Meanwhile, in Los Angeles, California circa, Kaitlyn is a young woman trying to become a stunt woman in a city filled with wannabe actors.
Other than her career going nowhere, she cant complain about her current situation too much though a tragic incident from the past does still haunt her.
That is until one night at a Hollywood party she bums a ride home off Marco, a former teen heartthrob, whom she once had an adolescent crush on.
This person revealing himself to be something inhuman, terrifying Kaitlyn to the core, and causing her to instantly fear for her best friend who does not return home from the same party.


The third point of view is a mysterious person, Unnamed at the beginning. Unidentified until much later. The brief interludes with this individual providing context to the creepy entities both Carey and Kaitlyn find themselves facing, bridging both the distance and the gulf of time betweenNYC andLA.


What Mr. Brockway has accomplished with The Unnoticeables is difficult to articulate, Honestly, going into my read, I was expecting a gory urban fantasy, a punk rock horrorfest, a quirky paranormal adventure, or some combination thereof all entertaining options to be sure.
Instead, I found myself reading a genre blending piece of literature which made me laugh at punk pals trying to pull girls, sneer at the eye rolling idiocy of Hollywood, be shocked by unexpected Tar Men, watch in horror as I learned about Empty Ones, and cringe in shock at the gore and nihilistic plans for humanity.
The shortness of the novel allowing me to rush from one emotion to another without a break, mimicking the emotional surges of a fast paced, adrenaline filled theatrical presentation.


A great deal of my fondness for this story is tied to the lead characters, Carey is exactly the type of smartass punk I always find myself cheering for, and Kaitlyns spirited stunt woman persona was a great balance to her belligerent costar and a great viewpoint to witness the City of Angels really turning into a “city of angels of death.
” The constant back and forth structure of the narrative allowing me to enjoy each of these very different people handling eerily similar problems without ever growing tired of either.


If our protagonists brought The Unnoticeables to life the creepy Tar Men, Empty Ones, and other inhuman denizens were the driving force of this bizarre, mindbending trip into the land of angels, demons, and worthless humanity.
The unseen and unrecognizable entities terrifying in their gradual introduction, mesmerizing in their growing mythos, and borderline horrifying in their nightmarish purposes.
Mr. Brockway handling these unearthly denizens with an unerring hand, nailing their portrayal and developing them into antagonists many readers will find it hard to forget.


I really enjoyed this introduction to Robert Brockways writing and the Vicious Circuit series, Definitely an author I want to read more from in the future, . . which is great, considering Im currently finishing off the next book two, The Empty Ones!

I received this book from the publisher in exchange for a fair and honest review.
Id like to thank them for allowing me to receive this review copy and inform everyone that the review you have read is my opinion alone.
There are angels, and they are not beneficent or loving, But they do watch over us, They watch our lives unfold, analyzing us for repeating patterns and redundancies, When they find them, the angels simplify those patterns, they remove the redundancies, and the problem that is you gets solved.


Carey doesnt much like that idea, As a punk living in New York City,, Carey is sick and tired of watching the strange kids with the unnoticeable faces abduct his friends.
He doesnt care about the rumors of tarmonsters in the sewers, or unkillable psychopaths invading the punk sceneall he wants is drink cheap beer and dispense asskickings.


Kaitlyn isnt sure what shes doing with her life, She came to Hollywood into be a stunt woman, but last night a former teen heartthrob tried to eat her, her best friend has just gone missing, and theres an angel outside her apartment.


Whatever she plans on doing with her life, it should probably happen in the few remaining minutes she has left of it.


There are angels, There are demons. They are the same thing, Its up to Carey and Kaitlyn to stop them, The survival of the human race is in their hands,

We are, all of us, well and truly screwed, This book is a variation on an invasion story, It is told over multiple time periods and I really enjoyed the multiple narrators used in the telling of the tale.
It is part horror, part action, part scifi, and part philosophical tale, So, it has all these parts and I like all these parts, So, why didn't I like the book more I think the reason is that so much feels unexplained, Yes, our heroes are heroic, but ultimately, I really don't know what they were fighting or why the invasion was taking place.
I don't know if this is part of a larger tale, but it feels like there must be something else to fill in the gaps.
Good effort, but I wanted more,

Quick addition: My friend is reading this now and I recalled some things that I believe are very noteworthy.
First, the book is very funny, There is more than a few spots that make you laugh out loud, The other thing that I was remiss in relating is that Brockway does an incredible job changing his writing to match the narrator.
There are three and all of them are distinct and memorable,

Finally, I have also recently learned that this is to be a series, It is very likely that I will read more because of the comments I have just added, A fast, gruesome but very funny read to be sure, Brockway delivers! The story oscillates between the NYC punk scene inwith the MC being a great big, bloody asshole named Carey, andin LA with the MC being a stuntwoman/waitress named Kaitlyn.
In both places, the world is inhabited by things which seem like people, but they are 'unnoticeables' you cannot really see them or remember them, but they seem hell bent on taking out Carey and Kaitlyn.
There are also 'tar men', who dissolve your flesh for no good reason, and 'angels' made of bright light who 'fix' people by solving their problems by destroying their brain/being or accidentally turning them into more unnoticeables and tar men.
All the monsters named take pleasure by shoving people them into machines that turn them into bloody mist,

This book had me laughing through out, even in the most gruesome parts, primarily due to the antics of Carey, who is one of the best characters I have read in some time.
So many great scenes packed into a rather thin volume it is impossible to describe them here, Loved the punk references I saw the Ramones in concert in the earlys and Brockway has the punk scene down to a tee and the snarky rip of contemporary Hollywood.
An excellent first installment in a trilogy, .