Review: All sorts of problems
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 04 29, 2013
Normally I like to try and find at least something positive to say about a novel, but the only thing that I could come up with for this one was that in the part of it that I managed to get through, there were no noticeable grammatical errors.  Otherwise, there's nothing at all to recommend about Electric Storm.  The plot was nonsensical and meandering, feeling a lot more like one of those rambling dreams that you like to tell your friends about for the sole reason that it made no sense.  The main character's personality consists mainly of being confused and indignant in equal parts, and she tends to let any man she crosses paths with push her around and ignore what she says.  The men, and there are many of them who show up in the first several chapters, have the collective personality of a coconut.  Character development-wise, they are completely interchangeable (except that Jackson is apparently more cantankerous than the rest).  The plot, such as it is, is slow to develop, poorly executed, and is broken up by random blurbs about pack politics and mating that make absolutely no sense and seem like a poor excuse to set up for a Anita Blake style all-men-are-welcome romance somewhere down the road (not that I'll be picking up any more books in this series).  The author periodically brings up bits of back-story from the protagonists days/weeks/eons at "the lab," but does an incredibly poor job at explaining what happened there and a worse job at integrating it into the present story line.  Normally I can force myself to read the entirety of a book even if it has problems and only stop before the end if the book was free, but this attempt was so fatally and painfully flawed that I just couldn't finish it.