Review: flowed poorly
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 07 14, 2012
This is the story of a post (and continuing) apocalyptic planet with space stations as places people live to escape the planet Earth.  Great idea overall.There are action bits, bombs, running, killing, evil plots and good people.  So, there is a lot to the story.  Too much in fact. The insertion of everything imaginable (life, death, human engineering, enhanced people, natural people, alien types, mystical types, mutants, ghosts, goddesses, men plotting overthrow of government, Marshall law, love story, sex, nuclear war, space travel and fights, supernatural events and so on).  Due to so many plot devices, the story flow was rushed, overdone in some spots, incomplete in others.  And led to a lot of jumping around in tale that really (while ended) did not flow in cohesive /cogent manner with regard to story arc development overall.The contridictions of characters was just conveniently explained away without direction.  Just plopped into story via a tell vehicle when needed as was not in keeping with initial characterizations at onset of meeting character.  Or, not explained at all (why not all girls or women who met the goddess did not have hair color change - just two?  Why only one of those two branded with tattoo?  Those type inconsistencies never addressed.  We just need accept them...).  The guy was pretty accepting of kiss without real reason behind it.  "No reason honey?  Oh, well then, okay.  Come on over and kiss me now." (Um, not so much believable).  There were many such contrived bits that seemed like author started something and just was unable to come up with continuation or plausible conflict resolution.I think many will forgive the stilted pacing and the contrived conveniences due to novelty of premise.  I am not induced to purchase further installemnts as the writing (while interesting premise) was really not that good.  A run through for correcting errors related to grammar and punctuation would be beneficial.Christine