Review: Great read. Too short.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 03 5, 2013
This is a great story, no doubt - I'm currently at #6 in the series. But they are much to short, and this review reflects all of them released so far. After #3 I really felt I had only read a short sample of a story, not a stand alone episode, and felt kind of tricked.I have no objection with the series-format, dividing a story up into several smaller installations can be a great way to engage the audience. However with each episode being this short, it feels like you need to wait at least three or four episodes to get enough reading to counter the fragmentarized experience.And with a total of 13 of them coming, this will be a rather expensive novel. With each episode at almost $4 each, the full novel will be a whopping $49.(EDIT: As I understand it, in the US each ep is only .99$. Not here in Sweden though. With added VAT, they are exactly 3.75 each)I can't help feeling the series format has just become a new way of increasing the price of the overall product.This said, if you like Scalzis writing, and I do, and if you don't object to pricing and the length of the individual episodes, the overall story so far makes for a great read.EDIT: After contacting Amazon they offered me a full refund, and I'll wait for the full novel in May. Hopefully not at $49...EDIT2: And after having contacted them, they have lowered the price for us Swedes as well./C