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That they would eventually cross roads with the Marker and the necromorphs was to be desired (its a Dead Space book after all). That the story characters had to be different that was expected. Maybe a kind of indirect sequel since around 200 year in-story separate both books. Having previously read Dead Space Martyr, I had a lot of expectation regarding this books. I did enjoy it overall, after initially hating it, but it just lacks inspiration. Sadly, Catalyst just fails to capture this and fumbles the potential. It is so expansive and disturbing with little to no hope for humanity or any other species than the Necromorphs that it takes a lot of nerve to peek into that terrible darkness. The universe of Dead Space (pun intended) is probably the most chilling and bleakest of all horror I've been a fan of. It's just about exciting enough to warrant a decent score but the darkness, horror, and agonising tension of the video games is simply not present here. If the latter is true it does feel quite disturbing, but the accidental ambiguity (since I don't think BK Evenson genuinely intended this) spoils it a little.Īfter a very sluggish start things pick up halfway through as Jensi attempts to rescue Istvan from a group of Unitologist fanatics. The novel never makes it clear if these are genuine mental health issues or if Istvan is actually being manipulated by the Marker from afar. Jensi is a fine-minded person but Istvan seems to suffer from extreme autism and ends up a political prisoner thanks to his madness.

Set somewhere before the Dead Space 3 prologue (in the times of the Sovereign Colonies), it begins, very slowly, by introducing our two main characters, Jensi and Istvan, brothers from a slum with nothing going for them. For the most part this is about the mental illness that the infectious, and dreaded, Black Markers are sending out to turn humans into slaves. The Necromorphs are hardly in this novel at all, only showing up at the end.

Don't expect this to be a nail-biting horror like the video games.