Review: Arrrgh!  This one came close.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 06 17, 2013
There are times a story almost feels good, but little things throw it off.  Sadly, The Suns of Liberty was a shining example of a story that fails to come together.And this story could have been great.Interesting plot angle - checkMysterious lead character - checktwisted romance - checklots of intrigue - checkclear conflict - check.But the problem was that these elements were all taken a bit too far, or not developed smoothly.The plot angle of a future dystopia is fine, but the means by which the plot was taken to the dystopia very uneven and confusing.  Worse, the villains made little sense to me.  I got a feeling that they were chosen for reasons related to the authors personal political views rather than because they made a sensible and convincing villain.the lead character fit the rule of being mysterious, but he was so mysterious and unformed  that he failed to hold my interest.  I just didn't care about him at all.The other members of the Suns were equally annoying.  All of them had flaws.  The problem was that the flaws didn't make them better characters.  These aren't endearing or interesting flaws.  They were more like cliché flaws to avoid having characters labels "mary-sue".  For me it was another reason to just not care about the charactersOf course, the rest of the plot failed to impress due to the shaky foundation of weak characters facing an unconvincing villain.  At least for me this is how it played out.I'm sure some readers will enjoy this tale.  it's interesting and the writing can be very engaging.  However, my feelings towards the writing and the characters made finishing this story far more difficult than I'd like.  I can only give this story 2 stars due to the flaws in the building of the story.