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  • Paperback: 416 pages
  • Publisher: Reagan Arthur / Back Bay Books; Reprint edition (February 26, 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0316032204
  • ISBN-13: 978-0316032209
  • Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 1.1 x 8.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (146 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #129,370 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2.0 out of 5 starsBarely a sequel
By CTMom on February 18, 2012
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I wanted to love this book as much as I loved it's prequel- BEAT THE REAPER. The problem is that this book was really, just barely a sequel that I'm not sure why Josh Bazell bothered. In BEAT THE REAPER, Dr. Peter Brown was living a double life- medical intern/reformed hitman- trying to hide from the mob who wanted him dead. And it was FASCINATING! A book that went a mile a minute and refused to be put down.

In WILD THING, which takes place several years down the road, it's as if Bazell said, "I have a successful character, & since he's in WITSEC I can do anything with him" which is sort of true. But not. This book isn't about a man hiding from his past. It's about a monster in a lake. Every once in a while, there is a flash of the character that was so interesting before, but it's so brief (& frankly kind of out of no where).

This could be an interesting mystery if allowed to develop on its own, but its reliance on the few characters from BEAT THE REAPER is almost a hindrance. I expected more from them than they delivered. It read more like a miniseries than a novel frankly. And the very strange inclusion of Sarah Palin as a character truly had me scratching my head.
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1.0 out of 5 starsMSNBC mixed with 13 year old wet dream
By Jacek Paszkowiak on June 17, 2015
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Book is terrible. Story is absolute chaos. My 10 year old son can write a better story line. And then there is Sara Palin as a character in the book. I can understand that author have an obsession but please.
Then story ends and literally 25% of the book (pages in printed version) is just liberal/ecology/anti Republican/Bush rant. Basically turn on MSNBC and you will now what I am talking about. It is like know body want to listen to author political statements anymore, so he decide to write the novel. You think you getting the novel and instead you getting his manifesto. I always wonder why Beck wrote Arguing with Idiots and now I know.
Good luck to all the readers and I want my money back.
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1.0 out of 5 starsHow? Why? Huh
By Ethan Dials on February 12, 2015
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I just reread Beat the Reaper for the 3rd time and it made me think about Wild Thing. Which is one of the only books I ever truly hated. Now there are books that are a lot worse then Wild Things but they usually come from someone on my writing level without a real story to tell. Maybe as Josh Bazell was writing Beat the Reaper he had this character arch in mind the whole time, but I saw no signs of the second book in the first. The first book is like House mixed with Punisher in a modern tragedy. Wild Thing is like a terrible episode of Scooby-Doo that was written just to get across how much the writer hates the celebrity guest. Again all in all this doesn't come close to the worse book I ever read but with the expectations I had from the first in the series it hands down the biggest disappointment.
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4.0 out of 5 starsSolid Read.
By EPAllman on January 12, 2013
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A very solid read filled with lots of fun, colorful characters as well as adventure and suspense.
However, it's very hard not to compare this book to Beat The Reaper, which I found to be more entertaining and an overall better read.
It was enjoyable, and I would recommend this book to others.
Can't wait for more by Josh Bazell!
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1.0 out of 5 starsAWFUL AWFUL AWFUL!!!!!!
By Jupiter Child on December 3, 2014
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I loved the first book and was very excited about Wild Thing. But.....please don't waste your money. I should have put it down after the first five pages, and won't be able to get those hours of my life back. It missed the mark in every way, but character development and bothering to explain portions of the plot are missing. Can anyone tell me who the priest was, how he was connected to the plot, why he was killed and why was he killed first? He was mentioned on a regular basis by name and everything else was just left to the readers imagination. Other reviewers are correct in that this author makes every effort to sound like a jerk.
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3.0 out of 5 starsAlittle funny but stupid plot
By RGA on October 14, 2015
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I was so disappointed. After reading The Reaper is Coming, I could wait to read another one of Josh Baazell's novels. This one did not keep my interest at all. The plot was stupid. The Sarah Palin character was stupid.
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4.0 out of 5 starsDon't miss this book just because it isn't really a sequel
By W. Hamersly on July 27, 2015
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Most reviewers have fallen into either a Loved It or Hated It camp, and both have valid points. I think a lot of the Hated It folks were expecting another stunning flat-out romp like Bazell's first book, and this book is not that. I think Bazell felt that some things really needed to be said (and he's right), and that the best way to get those things into the consciousness of the greatest possible number of people was to weave them into a Pietro Brnwa novel. A sound strategy, but not necessarily fair to lovers of the first book who bought this one based on the promise that it's a sequel. As other reviewers have astutely noted, this does not even read like a book written by the same protagonist. Having said that, the book is witty and very enjoyable in its own right providing you ignore the 'sequel' claim. The Epilogue takes us jarringly back to the man we loved from the Reaper, and feels almost like a partial apology and a promise to return to form. I'm not worried about Reaper being Bazell's 'Catch-22', he's just too talented. Bring on #3!
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2.0 out of 5 starsBlows it big time in the third act
By Russroom on July 17, 2013
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After a very engaging first 2 acts the author seemed to give up and just give us a lazy, weak job he on the ending. Nothing exciting happens, nothing cool happens, it just sort of ends in a blur. The brief epilogue reverts to the snappy, cool style of the rest of the book. In its' better moments this book reads like an Aaron Sorkin script, lots of fast and interesting dialogue about subject ranging from cruise ships to meth labs. The lake monster angle is interesting, and then dissolves into the most disappointing Scooby Doo episode ever.
As other reviewers have mentioned, there is a lot of politcal B.S. going on here. Overall I didn't find it as offensive as it could have been. The appendix, supposedly written by one of the characters, will be more offensive to about half of America. To me the biggest offense is the sin of omission in being honest about the political party that Mr. Bazell seems to favor.
2 stars for a great first 2 acts and the Johnny Quest style inner covers, followed by a impotent ending.
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1.0 out of 5 starsOne Star

Wish I could give it zero stars

Published 2 months ago by TJ Tausch
2.0 out of 5 starsHis editor should have subscribed stronger medicine

I thought Beat the Reaper an outstanding book even though Bazell's craft is shy of a writer who has served his internship. Read more

Published 2 months ago by Agrieved
5.0 out of 5 starsIt's ok to be different from the first book.

I loved the book because I love the writing, dialogue, and the characters. I get that the second book is completely different from the first entry into the series but I'm fine... Read more

Published 3 months ago by Matthew Dante
3.0 out of 5 starsNot so much?

No where near the quality of his first story.

Published 6 months ago by Mr. Not happy
3.0 out of 5 starsbut I enjoyed the first much

The same kind of stuff as the first one, but I enjoyed the first much more

Published 6 months ago by Bryce Oliver
5.0 out of 5 starswhile I enjoyed the prequel better

while I enjoyed the prequel better, this style of writing speaks to me and I couldn't put it down. finished it in a few short days and was saddened there wasn't more!

Published 8 months ago by Traci Bohn
1.0 out of 5 starsRun for the hills.

This is plainly an awful book. Some funny writing, a few interesting characters, but it's all over the place. Read more

Published 10 months ago by Visa
5.0 out of 5 starsA rollicking good time

Great book! Lots of real science, high degree of violence and a good mystery. Can't wait for the next one.

Published 12 months ago by William M Glisson
4.0 out of 5 starsgreat and waiting for a sequel

Not as good as the first, but still a worthwhile read. Give it a shot if you liked the first one!

Published 15 months ago by Joseph M. Lambert

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