Review: Very shallow mostly annoying characters
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 05 11, 2014
Calloway is a senior in high school.  He's orphaned and being raised by his aunt and uncle.  His cousin is his same age, and he also has a friend that reluctantly joins up with him because of an interest in the same cause.  She is very smart.  Sound familiar?Alright, I received a copy of this book to review for a contest.  I couldn't read the book in time, but that's ok, I like free books, but I just couldn't enjoy this book at all.Calloway and his cousin Breccan are poor, so poor that they're constantly tormented at school by Hawk.  Hawk torments them because they're poor and have old clothes and can't buy things.  Hawk is a real charmer.  He shatters a $2000 camera that Breccan and Calloway are using for a class, so they are held responsible for paying for it.  Hawk torments them in front of teachers, and the teachers do nothing because Hawks dad is the principal and "signs their pay checks".  These teachers must have the worst union ever.Calloway's dad left a trunk with instructions on retrieving a sacred book from an old abandoned library in town that no one apparently tries to get into or anything.  The book is about the Hara-Kirs who come from the anti-life to drain the essence out of humans.  The Hara-Kir want to destroy our world and theirs.  Calloway and Hawk turn to smart girl Easton to help decipher the book and figure out how to stop the Hara-Kirs.  Easton annoys Breccan, but she's nice in the end.  They all deal with saving the world and being in high school.Easton has a beautiful sister Weston who is a year older and in college and a professional when it comes to fighting Hara-Kirs.  She won't help them and doesn't want them to be involved since they're minors.Calloway gets a job at a sandwich shop with a guy named Marquan, then Hawk comes in to torment Calloway but Marquan stands up for Calloway.  The author notes that Hawk was "clearly frightened  of the diamond studs in his ear lobes."  what?This is a rambling review because the book rambled.  There were a lot of continuity errors and the characters were just shallow and awful.  The only person that seems well developed is Calloway.  His cousin Breccan overall comes across as a jerk.  Hawk is horrid, Hawk's girlfriend that Calloway loves, until he loves Weston has no personality.Calloway easily falls for girls who have no interest in him.  Weston apparently can't be tied down, but she's just do darn beautiful.  Weston's "tone of her flesh reminded him of white grains of sand on the Mexican beach - so pure and refined that it didn't look like sand at all".  This was how she was described.I think the story could have some potential but there were so many flaws in plot, and the characters were just so bad I can't say that I"ll read anymore of this series.