Review: fair advert for series
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 09 17, 2012
This is a prequel to a series that I happened upon while it was free.  There are some good things and some not so good things about this prequel.The good:Interesting post apocalyptic type world where one can be killed for meager supplies and gas is like gold to all who wish to move to other places.  The action scenes (theft and caught scene) were clear and vivid descriptive wise.  The world purported lends tension just by being.The "could be better "Characters are quite thin and shallow.  They are not fleshed well.  Some of that may be due to this is purely foundation and fuller fleshing comes later.  However, one needs be induced by this prequel to move to future reads.  And substance of a bit would aid that if done moreso.  The sex by proximity seems plausible and the past history lends some to that.  However, this reader did not feel like it was a true match chemistry wise (overall) - but more a draw of common bond based in spirit portion over the people connecting on baser level.  So, one can see the need for them to bond storywise - but it felt somewhat forced with one character less than enthusiastic (seeming) .The "new world " order or whatever to rebuild was interesting and (even for shortfalls cited in review) I can see interest in reading the first in series to see if the outline given here forms substantially.  Many will enjoy - but, with this prequel alone I find skipping it and moving to series (if description interests) would be okay too as this is "okay " - but not a whole lot more.Christine