The Suck of the Century

I'm usually pretty good at picking out interesting fiction, and I love a good disaster story. I can find a good one without too much effort, which makes the misses all the more painful. Take for example Category 7, by Bill Evans and Marianna Jameson. It's a "thriller" about an artificially-created superstorm that is set on New York City, except that the authors forgot to put in any thrills. Instead, we have page after page of cliched characters and poorly-written dialog, starting with a chapter detailing our villain, a scientist/businessman with a God complex and a break-a-few-eggs mentality. Never seen THAT before. None of the other characters are more interesting

It only got worse from there, to the point where I was able to see what was going to happen well before it did. And since I already knew what was going to happen, there was no need for me to finish the book, was there?