Review: A struggle to rate.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 4, 2013
Overall I like the plot of this book.  The main plot feels well thought out and planned.  I did however find this book madly irradiating.  This could have been a great book.  The plot was there, it was original the writer does have some skill when he applies it.  There are however many times where the book feels like it was written in short chunks with absolutely no review in between.  It felt almost like the author was rambling in his writing.The vast majority of the book feels like rambling and you almost have to work to get that many run on sentences written.  There was no real flow to the reading even though the characters were good and the plot interesting.  The vast majority of it felt like beating my head into the wall.  Toward the latter half of the book almost every sentence is constructed with stringing multiple sentences together with a comma. In fact there are times that you have to actually work to find a properly constructed sentence.I do not say this to harp but to any avid reader this will become a stumbling point even if you can't quite figure out why.  And if grammar mistakes bother you, please stay away because I fear for your sanity.The story is great in itself, its reading it that makes it difficult.  For this I struggled with a rating.  There are well constructed parts of the story and genuine enjoyment to read, but they are in between many pages of worthless drivel that doesn't add anything to the story or world and again the grammar and over all quality of the writing is bad, though I think from lack of trying more then ability.  I can only hope the author genuinely seeks out an editor to polish up this gem, or join a writing group that may turn this author into a genuinely excellent one.  The story and characters I would give a 4 but those things you must work for.