Review: Very slow start, but gets good
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 2, 2013
This first half of this book is, quite frankly, a difficult read. As I was reading it, I kept thinking, "They're trying way too hard to be Good Omens" (by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. If you haven't read it, go do so now.)  The dialog felt stilted and forced, and the characters were pretty hard to believe.  I very nearly gave up.Then something happens about halfway through the book - it finds its own voice and becomes pretty darn good. It stops trying to imitate other, better books and starts doing its own thing, and it works.  This is a book that would benefit greatly from some serious editing and rewriting to make the first half more bearable (I'd say at least 50 pages need to be cut - it takes way too long to get to the real story), but if you can get through that, its a pretty decent read.