Review: An enjoyable experience....
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 25, 2013
FIRST.... Wow, the description wasn't kidding about the graphic and explicit violence. I liked it :DThe flashbacks AND flashforwards...pretty cool. They give you a history of the characters tied directly to their current outlook of life and the present circumstances they're encountering. The flashforwards were just entertaining and hopefully tie directly into the follow-up books. I believe there're 4 planned in this series.I am definitely intrigued and waiting for the sequel "The Unlikely Hero". Not saying anything else on that as my last paragraph came a little to close to spoilers for my "no spoilers" rule.A 5-star book EXCEPT for....throwing "25 cent words" in every-which-way. I'm a smart guy. I also know a lot of fancy words; but they have a time and place. It didn't make a lot of sense to have them in this book. There were even a few that I had to look up just to verify they meant what I thought they did. That was uncalled for IMO. I did notice in other reviews that some people liked that, others not so much. I'm definitely in the latter. Just because you can doesn't mean you have to. :)But over-all, a great beginning to what seems to me to be another enjoyable ZA series.\m/