Book Review

Imagine this: you’re a bug, a parasitic wasp-thing. You don’t want to be this, but you have no choice. You’d give anything to be human, but you just aren’t. And now, you have no choice but to murder someone so that your species can live on. Weird right? You have no idea…

Paul (or should I say Uxon) doesn’t have to imagine this. This is his (their) life. In My Name Isn’t Paul by Drew Huff, this is his (their) life. You could say he’s having an identity crisis, and this crisis can’t be solved by going to therapy.

I don’t usually read books like this, the weird cosmic horror stuff, but I thought it would be a change of pace, so here we are. It was definitely a weird book, and I don’t think I would read it again. Although, the creatures are creative, and have a bunch of lore to them, even if it is sometimes disturbing lore.

When the main character was trying to be a good person, the character was okay, but then when the character started to go towards the dark side, I definitely did not care for the character. And the other bug characters? No, definitely not. No character was really likable. Although, in this type of story, that makes sense.

The author writes in a very detailed way, which is impressive, but most of the time disgusting because it’s about bugs that tear into flesh for food.

The writing can be a bit unusual at times, and perhaps a tad confusing, but I’ll chalk that up to the book being about aliens, and explaining concepts related to them can be a bit challenging at times.

This book is not for the faint of heart. Some parts you will probably want to skip through, and that’s okay. I had to take breaks from reading this book because at times it was a bit too much.

I’d give this story 2.5 out of 5 filaments. Why that score? Because it was a difficult read, wasn’t for me, and even though there was some interesting lore (like the Old Ones backstory, and how much thought the author put into the bug aliens), I just couldn’t read it again. If you’re interested in a story about alien bugs and don’t care about descriptions of flesh and such, then you might have better luck. Good luck!