Review: it's good, but ...
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 31, 2013
This story is worth reading. It's entertaining and the author is a very good story teller. The strong point for me was the build-up and the insightful social commentary on what we are willing to accept as entertainment, and the lengths we will go to make money, etc., all of that is very good. That being said, I feel like giving a book 3 stars requires the reviewer to cite something specific indicating the reason for the rating … unfortunately in this case to do so would be to give away a spoiler and that's not something I want to do. I'll say it this way -- I guess the build-up was better than the payoff, and more importantly there was some inconsistency in terms of the tone between the two. Yeah, I realize that's not very helpful but without writing a spoiler I can't cite anything more specific. I do like the story though and I do recommend it.