Review: I like the book but ...
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 17, 2014
I like the idea behind the book and I did like the book overall, but there were issues that really took away from the book.  I found the switching from character to character and present to past created a choppiness that really detracted from the flow.  I also found some of the descriptions to be excessively drawn out.  While I'm not adverse to course language when appropriate in dialogue, I found it's use to be overt and often unnecessary.  I also took exception to the author placing his own personal opinions on characters to be unnecessary.  If the author has done his job properly we, as readers, can form our own opinion.  I knew when I began to read the book that there would be more in the series.  I didn't like the end of the book, however.  The author appears to have decided that the book had gone on long enough and just stopped without resolving anything.  He did write a note at the end stating that the story would continue in the next book.  I think that each book should be able to stand on it's own.  I'm not sure that I liked the story or characters well enough to invest my time or money into the next book.In short I enjoyed the book mainly because of the subject matter.  The story flowed poorly though, which was a real turn off.