Review: Breathless action story
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 29, 2014
Scavenger is a fabulous story with breathtaking action and a relentless plot. The writing is brisk, vivid, and engaging.The brevity of the story means that apart from the protagonist, Rush, characterization is pretty thin. The villain’s motivation is unclear, apart from his being a big meanie with a grudge against the elites. The other characters are all very secondary, because there isn’t time to know them.Rush, however, is richly drawn and his circumstances present a fascinating moral dilemma. The turning point at which he makes his ultimate moral decision comes and goes a little too quickly, but once he chooses his path, the story drives inexorably and compellingly to its conclusion. Remember to breathe.