Review: What is fate?
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 26, 2014
If you could see into the future or the past, what would you do with that information? What kind of burden would the visions impose on your life? Would you accept it as is, try to change it, or just go crazy.  Would you even understand why you are having them?  The idea is a novel and interesting concept.  As we walk this path with Charlie and feel his confusion, pain, anger and how he is hiding from all this in a bottle as his way of coping. I would have preferred to be given more information about his glimpses into the future, why some people have them and others do not, why he is given them and what he is supposed to do with them.  The author did a great job of conveying the sense of confusion and the mental toll these visions take on him.  He is an interesting character and so is Jennifer, although she plays a role that is way to small.  I felt that the story spent too much time in the beginning establishing Charles mundane daily existence when more could have been added as to when this ability manifested, how he felt or reacted to it, etc.  maybe room for a prequel?  I would be interested in reading more if his novels in the future. Nonetheless, an interesting read and an excellent effort for a first book with a nice, flowing writing style.