Review: This Cell Doesn't Hunt
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 04 13, 2013
I got about halfway through this science-fiction/espionage mashup before I realized that it was basically setting the table for a series and wasn't going to tell a complete, coherent story by itself. "Hunter Cell" doesn't stand up well enough to be worth reading on its own: it ends abruptly after it has introduced what I assume are the key characters without really giving the reader more than a hint as to what the story is actually about. The dialog seems to be a collection of cliches strung together and the point of view shifts back and forth between characters, in part because the author doesn't really have anything to say about any of them to bring them into focus as individuals. The only character who seems remotely interesting is the fugitive who shows up about two-thirds of the way through it. A lot more of him would have made this story more interesting -- then the author could have dropped some of the other two dimensional characters he uses to take up space in the novel.