Review: Hope this never happens to me!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 21, 2014
Difficult to discuss thus without too many spoilers, but very imaginative and strikingly real, considering how surreal it is. The two main characters and their responses are really believable, and I empathised with both of them.Great plotting, good teasers, and lots of what the heck is happening moments.Bits I didn't like: backstory that padded things out - though admittedly difficult to keep the action going when the viewpoint character is where he is. I fast-forwarded five or six times.Omniscient narrator problems: there a few parts where Chuck notices/describes things at length, that then we're told he doesn't care about. Exactly. And who is telling us he doesn't care? Bit jarring. Much better when the narration sticks to only his point of view.Then why a five? Because wanting to find out what ever is going on dragged me through all of that. I'd have to be flinty hearted indeed for those niggles to make it a four.My only worry is that the author can't contrive an ending as clever as the beginning :)I think some people have concerns that this isn't the whole book. Not me. That author has to eat after all. This is so good it shouldn't be free - but then as, an unknown he'd probably not sell any.If I was a publisher, I'd be snapping this up - and no, I don't know the guy :)And I'm not trapped in his head.