Review: Needs to be a book. Would garner many more fans
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 15, 2014
First the good. There are very few characters which I almost immediately am drawn too and want to see where they go in the course of a book or series like Jack Reacher and Mitch Rapp but this COULD be one of those.I read the first three episodes one after another before leaving this review so I will take this time to let first time buyers my thoughts.I really like the main character. The story is well written with a dusey of a ending. I found that I could not put it down and read it straight through and bought the next two episodes right after and read them all back to back which wasn't to hard because they are short which is not a compliment.The second episode was very confusing and if it had not been for the fact that the third one was already out I probably would have dropped off the series there. The characters are written different from the first episode which would be all right except even now after the third episode I could not really tell you why there is so much animosity in the second episode. This one also ends with a cliffie.The third episode seemed to put the series back on track sort of. There is action and although the story is advanced I do not really have a good feel for the characters and who they are or their motivations. This one does not end with such a dramatic cliff hanger.Now for the not so good. I hate short stories! As a hopefully future writer I can not really get my head around this new line off short stories or series as Amazon calls them. They are cheap which is a plus however the major flaw is that it is like taking a book and ripping it apart into a few chunks of chapters then letting someone hide all the chapters and only give them to you a little at a time. Don't get me wrong they get your attention and make you think about what may happen next but there is a huge disadvantage.If I'm honest the only reason I made it past the first episode was because there were already two more published. With stories written like this the reader is the one that suffers and we as authors sometimes do not take that into account. I tend to read a lot of books and I am not sure what the turn around time is of these episodes but more than a month and I may as well not bother because I will have lost the thread of the story and the connection with the characters. Any anticipation I had for the story line will have long since dissipated so I while I may enjoy the story it loses more of my fever with each delay. The other thing I dislike is that well I'm cheap. I buy a lot of book and rarely ever spend more that $4 for a book. Depending on how long the author strings this out it could be considerably more which will be detracting to me and I'm sure others for what could be a fantastic book and garner me as potential life long fan. I can't help think that there are probably thousands like me out there that feel the same but won't leave a message but just won't buy causing the author to miss out on all those fans.That all being said It really is a good series so far and I'm not sorry I started it we will just have to see if I can finish it.