Review: A new take on time "travel".
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 24, 2013
Patrick hasn't lived a day for himself...ever. He's also NOT sympathetic to the plight of every weirdo trying to talk nonsense, either. He has no problem killing the bad guy, so make sure you aren't a bad guy. The book starts out with Patrick showing how he feels about crazies who bother him. Then he gets attacked by a beast, a monk appears in his apartment who warns him of an...octopus? CRASH. And there it is, but the monk disappeared. The crash wasn't the sound of his upstairs neighbor and her boy-toys, either. Enter the octopus. The way Patrick handles himself you'd never believe he gets nervous going to job interviews.What is going on???The monk becomes a mentor and Patrick is going to go ahead and save the world from its slavery by destroying the time cage.Vivid and rich, this story seems complicated but the author does a fabulous job in making it easy to digest. Its FULL of colorful characters, beasts and ideas that I've never heard of before.In total, this was so EPIC to read and the action is just one cool part of this book. The non-action scenes are so...edible. Good, no great. Great dialogue, fresh story idea, an incredible new world. This is easily, EASILY, movie fodder. I read this a while ago and was skimming it again to leave a review and I hit the part where his body becomes part of the river current in the Nile and it reminded me how creative this book was. The mind who wove this needs to weave MORE.A+++++Great editing and the story never stalled out once. Not once. Highly recommend.