Review: Missing Climax
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 6, 2012
This is basically two books in one.  Seventy percent of the book is a decent coming-of-age (with supernatural powers) story, and thirty percent of the book is a screed against Christianity combined with a lecture urging the acceptance of homosexual behavior.  If you are Christian and easily offended, don't buy this book.  I'm the first, but not the second, and the attacks were so ham-handed that I was simply amused.As for the main part of the book, it's fine.  The first quarter of the book really didn't catch me, and the writing never stands out, but there aren't too many editing errors and I never felt like I was slogging through the book.  It's a quick read, and I felt invested in the main character.What the book does lack, however, is a good climax.  I'm not even sure if there is a climax - there is something near the end, but it bears the same relationship to a climax that a speed bump does to a ski jump.So now I'm at an impasse.  I would like to see what Keeley does in the next book, but it's more expensive and I'm not sure I want to spend that money so that I can read pointless and inept libels on a caricature of Christianity and where nothing happens at the end.