Review: First Kindle book I couldn't finish
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 03 24, 2012
This is the very first Kindle book I haven't been able to finish since I got my Kindle a year and a half and countless book downloads ago.I really, really like techno-thrillers.  I was really, really looking forward to reading this.  Instead, I found I kept setting this book aside and reading other books (all of which were highly entertaining).  I just couldn't get into this one.Finally, I gave up on it entirely at the end of Chapter 14, which is a quarter of the way through the book.  That's an awfully long way to go in hopes that things will happen...or at least become interesting.Yes, based on some of the reviews, it sounds like something actually resembling a plot finally starts happening right about where I gave up, and that it does improve, at least somewhat.Unfortunately, I no longer care.The characters weren't compelling enough for me to care about.  They seemed awfully one-dimensional and stereotypical.In addition, I found that telling the story in the first person, but swapping who that first person was...for chapter after chapter after chapter after chapter, flipping back and forth between two characters...was annoyingly distracting.  Had the characters spoken in distinct "voices" (or had I been reading the book at one sitting), it might have worked, although I never saw a compelling reason to write it this way.  However, I thought the two characters sounded identical, which made it impossible to tell who was speaking without being 'reminded'.  (I guess I expect books to flow...and this one didn't.)Plus nothing really happened.  A quick kidnapping right at the beginning.  Then nothing.  Again, for chapter after chapter after chapter.  Nothing.  Finally, in Chapter 14, where I stopped reading?  One of them woke up in a cell (he'd been in his apartment), then had a vision about a pretty dream world - a vision that took up most of the chapter.  Then he woke up in the cell again...and went to sleep.I gave up at that point.