Review: Worth much more than $1!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 11, 2010
Like the reviewer above me, I also stumbled across this author's post to other authors about how he had put his books on sale for holidays and was interested enough to check out the books in question (Note to other ebook authors... :))The reviewer above me certainty didnt mean the title of their review as a backhanded insult, but just to be clear, this book was worth much more than it's $1 price.It's an interesting phenomenon he's created in the dreamers, the ability to imagine something so vividly that it can be recorded into a movie where the viewer gets a virtual reality version of the dreamer's story. I loved that fact that he didnt saturate the book with invented/improved technology just to show how 'future' it was, and Leif, the dreamer in question, wasnt anything you'd expect from a mystery/thriller, but fit the whole plot and situation seamlessly. As another reviewer said, it moves but it doesnt feel rushed. Leif doesnt suddenly discover latent martial arts skills and start jumping out of buildings, it's a ... I dont want to call it a 'thinking man's action book' but that's the best term that's coming to mind right now. My teeny teeny bone of contention is that when you figure out whodunit (and I doubt you'll see it coming!), he doesnt explain howdunit. Im not sure if it's because he didnt want to bog down the ending in a sudden flood of technical jargon or if it was sort of left up to the reader to imagine. I tend to lean towards the later; it didnt *need* to be explained, and in fact it would have probably hurt the story/pulled you out of the moment to suddenly be reading about the technical hows instead of the emotional whys. It's rare for me to say that, usually if I dont get things spelled out for me in great detail, I get annoyed. No loose ends! But this one works just as it is.On a side note, if you view the author's other ebooks, you'll see that each one is completely different, and I love that. I love an author who's not only stretching his wings, he's doing something completely unlike what he did before. No pigeonholing for this author :) Ive bought the other 2 stories and cant wait to read them.