Review: Definitely recommended
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 9, 2013
Very well-written; a cut above most action novels. Quite a page-turner and kept my attention to the end.A few minor weaknesses, meant as constructive comments (potential spoiler alert). There were a lot of villains and I understand structurally why one of them had to be taken off the table early. But the way this happened, the relative ease of it, was perhaps a bit anticlimactic after the previous buildup of the person. Also, it revealed a potentially very serious character flaw in the hero, and the female lead seemed just a little too accepting of this, with few if any second thoughts later on ("could this flaw ever show up in our relationship too?"). She seemed a smart and cautious person overall so it was a bit surprising. I know the novel's main focus was not relationships or angst, and rightly so, but just a bit more nuance could have strengthened the relationship - a little more tension or back-and-forth in the middle part of "boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy and girl get together." Overall it was handled well but this one point bugged me. (End spoiler alert.)Definitely recommended, and I look forward to others in the series.