Review: Very Good Follow-up Book
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 17, 2011
I enjoyed reading Anomaly as it was straight forward and called to my introspective brain instead of my adventure seeking brain. I've read some reviews that refer to it being "elementary" or "pedestrian". I found the intent of the writer to be to put forth the "idea" as the emphasis rather than the mind numbing details and exhausting action that encapsulate the ideas in many other books written today. I would not even think to make a parallel comparison. If you want Cussler or Patterson, download them. I look for new authors to get a fresh perspective and style.I count this as the writer's second book. I read the first book as well, and I found it to be just as good, if a little different. In that book the violence surrounding the idea was a part of the idea, so it was appropriate. In this case I didn't need 300 pages of chases and fighting to "get it"-it was about the science and the reaction of society to the appearance of the anomaly. I also didn't need months of storyline to develop an impromptu romance between two characters-there is actually such a thing as two people hitting it off right away.I see this writer's strength as being able to immerse the reader into the lives of characters who face moral dilemas and changing paradigms. In both books, the amount of action/violence and dialogue was appropriate and well written. I look forward the his next "idea", and hope it's written entirely different than the way everything else is written today. Is this book written lightly and without being bogged down in techno speak, yes. Does that make the ideas contained within it lightweight, not at all. I enjoyed it and have Mr. Cawdron on my watch list.