Review: Interesting read...
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 17, 2013
For some reason, I felt like this book was a 1000 pages long.  It wasn't that the author didn't keep you engaged ... it's just that most of the scenes are on repeat.  You'll understand once you read the book... if you decide to buy it.This is not an X-Men read .... although the similarity in super-hero-ness from genetic mutations is similar.  That is where the similarities end.  I enjoyed the story, but felt a little bogged down by the author's word choice and sentence structure (sometimes I had to read a sentence twice to understand what the author was trying to say).  In some instances, you feel like maybe you missed a sentence (or paragraph) because the author fails to properly describe a sequence of events.  It was a little wearing on the mind sometimes.  And... there are at least 14 people that are constantly identified and each person has two names (the one they were born with and their alias) ... so sometimes I found myself saying, "Now ... who is this again? I forget!"  Perhaps I wasn't paying much attention, but I suspect that the author's word games (is "drug" the past tense of "drag"...really?) had a little to do with my confusion.  Would I recommend this book? Yes, but take it to the park on a sunny day and read it ... the book is on full repeat so you won't get mad when you lose your attention in the wonders of nature and forget the entire point of a chapter (you've already read a scene somewhere else).