Review: Made me glad I'm an only child.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 11, 2014
Greed, manipulation, nepotism, betrayal, blackmail, corruption, fratricide, and sexual harassment - all the things that make you really want to get up in the morning - with just a soupcon of alternative energy sources and a hint of stem-cell research, and I'm on board. Dunno if I'd read it again, but I'd definitely recommend it.There were a couple of plot turns that had me thinking this story was heading someplace that I wouldn't be interested in, but I'm glad I stuck with it because, all in all, it pretty much held my interest and I think everything held together well.In the home stretch everything became perhaps a tad too convenient, and about a half hour to the end, the plot turned somewhat disjointed but the epilogue made it all forgivable. Not that I'm declaring Wallace's work flawless, just that if there were any flaws, they were easy to overlook. And any writer who can confess to having eaten fried guinea pig deserves some slack.For those who are keeping score, here are the standings on all the components I've noted most reviewers object to:  (1) Zero paranormal/supernatural/magic components; (2) Some profanity; (3) Bare bones romance but nothing gooey; (4) Two or three incidents of mildly-explicit-but-not-graphic sex; (5) No explicitly grisly or protracted violence; (6) Some racial conflict; (7) No protracted or graphic child abuse; (8) No animal abuse; (9) No religious/alternative lifestyle agenda or promotion; (10) not a cliffhanger ending; (11) Grammar and punctuation police, come ahead on: You won't have a field day but there are treasures to be found.