Review: Names, Really?
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 20, 2013
As usual, Chris has written a great story. It is a definite page-turner(is that the correct word to use for an electronic book?). I could hardly wait to find out what would happen.The one drawback I found to the book was the names Chris gave some of his minor characters. They threw me out of willing suspension of disbelief. For example, John Wellinton Wells; Martin Pathway(Padway); Mycroft and his brother, the famous consulting detective; and of course Irene Adler. I would rather that Chris pulled the names out of a telephone book rather than homages to other famous characters.That said, I can heartily recommend this book to anyone who is interested in a bildungsroman about a young woman who is beginning to come into her own as the book ends. Others may complain that she is more acted on than acting for herself, but by the end of the book, she recognizes her power and acts upon it. I can hardly wait for the sequel, where she is a fully realized Royal Sorceress.The names is the only reason I gave four stars. It really should be 4 3/4.