Review: Slow start
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 10 25, 2013
The beginning is full of exposition, it goes on and on for far too long. I lost interest a few pages in, but kept plodding on anyway, finally giving up about halfway through Chapter 3. By then, very little had happened, just a lot of showing and a trifling bit of telling. The writing itself is good in a technical, grammatical sense, or I'd have given it one star.I understand this is the second in a series (I didn't read the first one), but that's no excuse for the blah start. Background information doesn't have to be boring, nor does it have to be offered like limp vegetables you have to choke down before you can get to the good stuff.