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Tommy O' Brien, an average guy from a small town who is struggling to raise a family and make ends meet, has just received the worst news of his life - he has cancer and it's terminal. His decision to keep the news from his wife, his deteriorating physical condition, and his recent job loss culminate in a life-changing turn of events.

Tommy and his two friends (a bad influence is an understatement on the part of his friend Sherm), decide to risk it all and rob a bank. What was supposed to be easy inevitably goes horribly wrong and hostages are taken, one of whom is a small child. There's something very special about him and under the worst of circumstances, Tommy is unexpectedly presented with a second chance at life.

Terminal is the perfect combination of great writing and a unique take on an otherwise predictable story. The supernatural elements introduced later in the book are both interesting and welcomed instead of jarring (or even laughable).

If you're looking for something different that you'll want to read again later, you won't be disappointed with Terminal. Recommended.


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Terminal A Novel Brian Keene Books Reviews

For a while Brian Keene was my favorite horror author. Ghoul is one of my favorite books of all time. I enjoyed his dead stuff and the worms. I overlooked his awful attempts at writing black characters as if ever one of them came out of 80's hip hop videos. Lately his books have become stall and repetitive. It seems like every white male protagonist in his book has to love rap and also mention "Howard Stern" a few times. they also have to talk with old style slang. Once the character started saying he has to go back to his crib to talk to his wife I put the book down. I wish Mr. Keene would just write normal dialog and stop trying unsuccessfully to get modern slang down. It is like if your grandfather keep saying "ill" or "fresh".
Terminal isn't a bad novel, as a matter in fact it's one of Keene's better books. It starts off great with the characters having realistic motivations for their actions and actually seem realistic. Terminal however begins to fail about half way through, first when they go to buy the guns it just feels stereotypical (and it's obvious Keene didn't look into firearm prices before writing this section).
Then it falls apart about ten pages into the bank robbery. I felt that Keene's reason for the robbery going bad was terrible and if you read the book you probably will too, the next part where the novel fails is the cast of characters in the bank who I just felt were too diverse. Then rather than try to keep the realistic feel that had been present throughout the first half of the novel Keene adds supernatural elements to the plot and it just doesn't feel like the same book after that. The ending is good, but it's the only good part of the second half of the book.
I give this three stars, two for a great first half and one for a terrific ending.
Terminal is about a 25-year old guy named Tommy who finds out he has terminal cancer. Learning he has at most three months to live, Tommy decides to rob a bank to ensure that his wife and son are taken care of. There, he meets a boy named Benjy, whose touch can heal.

When I read the premise, I thought it sounded like something that could have been an episode of The Twilight Zone. I had to check the book out.

I liked the first half of the book for the most part. Tommy is a likeable, Everyday Joe that I couldn't help but care for. He wanted nothing more than to make a good life for his wife and child, but his life was being taken from him by cancer. He was working a crappy job for crappy pay, and even that was taken away from him. It is easy to see how he became desperate enough to want to rob a bank, and I wanted it to go well for him.

I grew attached to Tommy by just reading about his life. I liked reading Tommy's interactions with those close to him -- his wife, his son, and his two best friends. His relationships and everyday life thickened his character and made him all the more real to me. That made what was happening to him all the more sad.

And that's basically what the first half of the book was Tommy dealing with his cancer and trying to go about his life. The second half was the bank robbery and the results of it, and that's where I feel the book slipped. I felt the bank robbery was just one big literary cliche, from how it was done to the characters involved. Even the hostages felt like hostages from other fictional works an old man with a bad heart, a mother with a small child, a religious old lady, an undercover cop... The only unique character seemed to be Benjy, the little boy with healing powers, but we don't learn enough about him.

The character Benjy bothered me a ton. He was likable enough, and his healing touch made him interesting. I wanted to get to know him. We learn about his mother, and a little bit about how he was conceived, and we learn that he has a dog, and we learn his view of what happens after death, but that's it. What we don't learn is how he got his gift, or how he and his family cope with it. That's the stuff I want to read about when you drop something huge in my lap like healing powers. This isn't X-Men. You can't introduce a character with powers, never touch on how he got them, and expect readers to go, "Oh, okay."

Benjy notices that a character is sick in his head. It's implied that monsters or demons are there, but nothing ever comes of it. How did this character acquire these monsters or demons? What do they want? We'll never know.

The plot holes (for lack of a better term, although I hesitate to call them that, as Tommy's story is fully filled out.) were the biggest issue I had with Terminal, but it wasn't my only issue by a long shot. I didn't like the "gangsta" scenes or how Keene portrayed characters from the "hood". It seemed cliche and stereotypical to me. It seemed like he was trying too hard to make his characters urban. I also didn't like how Keene kept repeating phrases throughout the book. Sometimes that technique can work in a novel... Suzanne Collins did it effectively with "Real or not real," in Mockingjay. Keene's repeated phrasing in Terminal just annoyed me, though. "...growing at an alarming rate," was written at least twenty times, and it stuck out like a sore thumb each time. Same thing with "Life's a bitch and then you die."

I was pretty disappointed with the novel by the end, but I do have to say the ending was awesome. I won't spoil it for anyone, but it almost redeemed the book for me. Almost. Mostly, it just made me wish we learned more about Benjy.

I won't read Terminal again, but I'm not completely turned off of Brian Keene. From what I've read, this is out of the realm of what he normally writes, and this was definitely an OK book. I kind of wish I had picked a different book to be my first of his. Still, I liked his writing, and I'll probably give him another shot. I hear he wrote some awesome zombie books.
Tommy O' Brien, an average guy from a small town who is struggling to raise a family and make ends meet, has just received the worst news of his life - he has cancer and it's terminal. His decision to keep the news from his wife, his deteriorating physical condition, and his recent job loss culminate in a life-changing turn of events.

Tommy and his two friends (a bad influence is an understatement on the part of his friend Sherm), decide to risk it all and rob a bank. What was supposed to be easy inevitably goes horribly wrong and hostages are taken, one of whom is a small child. There's something very special about him and under the worst of circumstances, Tommy is unexpectedly presented with a second chance at life.

Terminal is the perfect combination of great writing and a unique take on an otherwise predictable story. The supernatural elements introduced later in the book are both interesting and welcomed instead of jarring (or even laughable).

If you're looking for something different that you'll want to read again later, you won't be disappointed with Terminal. Recommended.