Review: I'm not a fan of serial books
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 21, 2013
A few reviwers have commented "this reads like a chapter" and that's because it is.Scalzi has basically taken a novel and released it as 13 sections (chapter it seems like) at a time. I've now read the first three chapters and while I'm enjoying them I don't plan to buy the rest.That's partly because if I buy them as they are released, I forget what's going on between readings, so I suggest if you suffer memory lapses like me, you get them all at once and read them all at once (which has its own little niggle that you need to keep dropping out to "Home" on your Kindle to load up the next chapter). It also means I lose my emotional link to the players so I'm not as invested in finishing the whole thing.But mainly beause they are expensive. That dollar adds up per-chapter and while Scalzi is a good writer, there are many equally good writers for less.So, nothing against Scalzi per se, or his storyline it seems good, and I'll keep a look out down the track for the complete set in a single volume (and hopefully for about $6, that seems a good price to me).