Review: A Tough Read...Quite Boring In Numerous Areas
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 3, 2013
The first book of this series was pretty good and kept my interest.  The premise was different to some extent...a virus caused by aliens.I did get bored with the extensive and superfluous descriptions within the context of scenarios and story line.  I started to just glance or gloss over some of this just to get to the action parts.  There was so much constant unnecessary descriptive content that did not really add to the story or to what was going on.  It could have been left out and one would still be able to understand and grasp what the entire story was about.  These three books didn't need to be 1000+ pages to tell the story.I made it through the first book and really connected with Walt, although the hot air balloon attack was a bit incredulous.  I guess it had to end somehow...somewhere.The second book (Meltdown) I really struggled with.  Again, so much descriptive stuff that tended to take away from the story itself...IMHO.  The lack of proof-reading was distracting.  I finally made it through this second book and found myself NOT looking forward to the third book.  There just wasn't anything that enticed me to readily move forward with anticipation of "what next."I got into the first chapter of the third book (Knifepoint) and realized it was going to be no different than the first two books.  I couldn't...or chose not to, go any further.  More typos, more lack of proof-reading, more inane descriptives which added nothing to the story line...again.  One would think that an author would get a clue from reviews of the first book, let alone the second book, to at least give a concerted effort in trying to present a better product, but alas, that did not happen.I also purchased the 4th, and supposedly, the last book of this series, but I'm having a really hard time deciding whether I want to subject myself to more of the same.  I mean, four different books about the same exact story line with different characters for each book, just different circumstances.We got a pretty good character in Walt.  He was developed pretty well, but then...poof, he's gone.We get an older brother who is totally into himself, who loves to criticize and pick on his younger brouther.  His younger brother is a 23 year old whiny, sniffling crybaby who's character is truly never developed to any great extent that would make one cheer for him.  Neither one of them ever stood out as interesting.And then we get the brother and sister who are kung-fu artists who have to fight for their lives from the aliens and those who wanted to make them prisoners.Okay...you get the point.