Review: Fun Start!
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 17, 2014
Sometimes a fun novella is just what you need.  I had the chance to read Proxy by Mindee Arnett recently, and I have to say, I’m now wildly excited for Avalon!  I can definitely see so much potential in the characters and the story, and I can absolutely see the comparisons to Firefly.  (In case y’all don’t know, Firefly is my love, the cancelled show I still mourn, so I take comparisons seriously, yo.)Anyway in Proxy we meet Jeth and are briefly introduced to the rest of his crew.  Proxy is almost more of a novelette maybe, since it’s only about 60 pages in e-book, so it was hard to get a feel for everything about the world Mindee created.  BUT, she did a great job with bringing all the major players onto the scene, and giving me as the reader a good idea of who Jeth, Lizzie, and others were.  We got a sense of the world, the way things work, and who Jeth and his band of thiefs are.The plot of Proxy moves along really fast, but again, we’re working in a limited time frame.  I liked getting a feel for how Jeth and his crew work, who their enemies are, and what the stakes are.  From what Proxy showed us, I feel like Avalon will be tense, and a lot of fun!  I also liked getting to see how Jeth treats his crew, especially his little sister.  Proxy is a great start to this new series from Mindee!