Review: Final score a Mystery
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 02 8, 2014
There's a mystery at the heart of this story, and unfortunately no real clues to its eventual solution in this first book of a trilogy. I would possibly consider bumping up the score if the outcome turned out to be ingenious, but from what I've read so far I doubt that will happen.This book does have some interesting ideas, such as the hero learning of the end of the world in a dream and tricking his friends into joining him at the one place he hopes they'll be safe. But the execution is poor. For instance, once he gets the group of friends to "safety" we never hear about them again. Also of the thousands of people brought to the dome only he and one or two others seem even remotely concerned about the aliens' motives.There's also a love story. I use the term loosely as neither one of the characters seem to know what love is. But when they get near each other they feel hot, and that must be close enough.In sum humans act stupid because they apparently are. Aliens act stupid for reasons that remain murky.