Review: Great story, but incomplete.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 8, 2012
Kim is a pint-sized accountant working hard and doing her best for her ungrateful boss, whilke looking after her wheelchair-bound brother. When she is disprespected one too many times, she seeks advice from the bosses hatchet-man.One Ninja motorcycle, a 357 Magnum, and some training from Cole later and she is ready to change her life.I got this book for $.99 from Amazon. Not because of the price but because I was pointed toward this author by a (still) respected person whose blog I follow. The concept sounded good and I was looking forward to reading all three titles in the series.But when I finished this one I realised that it was incomplete. The writing was good, no problem there. It just didn't end where I thought it should have ended. I suspect the ending I want is at the end of book 3.I realize that we are in a period of turmoil while everyone works out what is going to work and what won't in this new world of publishing and e-books. This book is an example of the trend of taking a whole and cutting it in to pieces, so that you end up paying what the author wanted originally for the whole, but at a more palatable cost. Not quite serialization.For me the problem was that it seemed like a cynical way of getting the money out of my pocket. Perhaps I mis-read the blurb and the serialization aspect was there for me to see, but I just didn't see it. This might be a way for me to consume e-book content one day, but not right now. I won't be consuming parts 2 and 3 unless they are on sale. If only this had been a whole story unto itself ...I give it '4' for being a good story and writing, and '2' for not being a whole story. Average score '3'.Disappointed.I read the Kindle edition (Editions Herodiade, October 2011, 172p), which I bought from Amazon.com.