Review: Very good - as far as it goes ....
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 4, 2014
This author appears to be an intelligent writer, and this partial book is worth the read.  However, reader beware.  Some series books are each complete tales within themselves, and their successors are continuations of related places, persons and times.  This one, however, turned out to be perhaps 1/3 of a single story, stopping quite abruptly ... leaving the reader aggravated and feeling cheated.  One has to wonder whether a feeling of insecurity leads such authors to 'slice' their books merely to sell more of "the rest of the story."  That scheme doesn't always work out.  This is one reader who has developed a strong distaste for this type of 'series.'  It is probable that the entire story would have rated a 5 - but this reader will never know.