Review: Phoenix Earth
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 17, 2013
I was offered Phoenix Earth in exchange of an honest review so at long last I finished it and here I am.Accepting the agreement was my mistake, basically made out of greed, for while I love reading I do not like watching tv and P.E. as clearly stated is structured very much like a tv series... as said my bad!I found particularly infuriating the continuous use of flashbacks in the first chapters or episodes to introduce/explain the story. While on video it would be fast enough not to be annoying here it disrupts the flow of the narration and in the end only emphasizes the differences between a movie and a book. Later on the story improves yet it maintains too clipped a pace. There's no real build up for situations or characters, a whole race of beings is introduced and annihilated in a space of few short pages, it all feels rushed...So, why 3 stars? Because while I do not like how it is structured Phoenix Earth is still written by people who know their business. The text reads well,it is flowing and clear and the dialogues feel real, not something thrown in and sticking with glue.For those who like reading short stories or for short periods this book would probably be perfect. If you prefer longer reads or do love to get lost in your story for a whole night... I'd say P.E. is not for you^^