Review: A bit of a tease...
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 15, 2014
What you get here is basically a prequel (which is really a teaser), and then a bit more of a teaser (the first three chapters from the full book). This is fine and I can understand why authors do this, but in this book it just seemed much more apparent than usual, that I was going to be left dangling by the thinnest thread possible, and I am. So, the book has done its job, in that respect.The story is (potentially) good. A father, with a dark childhood he doesn't really remember, is told that in order to save his own son (who is a cancer patient), he must dig into his own past - saving humanity in the process.The story had some good moments, but on the whole didn't move quickly enough for me. Also the fathers love for his son was hammered home much too much as for me. Yes, it's important to know he loves his son, but I knew that after the second or third time it was mentioned. By the twentieth time, it got too much.The story really gets interesting on the last couple of pages (as good teaser should) as we go underground into a hidden and dangerous world, beneath the streets of London, where drug addicts and crazy tramps are the best thing you can hope to run into. Good story. Tease level too high in my opinion.