Review: Wanted, a Real Ending!
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 05 30, 2014
To start with, let me say this is really a good book.  I thoroughly enjoyed it.  It is fast-paced, well written, and a good book.  However, although the author states these are "stand alone" books, they are not.  For this, I take off two stars right off the top.  It ends with Chemworks, a company of Blake's that is being investigated by WHO and is the basis for this entire plot, being sold to INGX.  This is a shell company engineering new viruses through nanoparticles that excel in transmission as synthetic nerve agents.  As the scientist working with WHO dies at the end, it is told to the reader that Robert Blake, the father whom Leopold believes is alive, actually is alive and is the owner of this INGX company.  Leopold has never believed that his father is actually dead, and has been looking for him for years.  This just leads the reader into the next book, Panic.  Well, this never sets well with me at all.  I like a book that IS a stand-alone book and does not just lead into the next of the series, leaving me with more questions than answers.  This ending was nothing but huge question marks.  Two stars down!  The next star I removed was for all the times I had to go to "translation" for all of the French I didn't understand.  It was occasionally translated, but seldom.  This was very irritating to me.  The fourth star I removed was for all the typos.  Words were left out all through the entire book.  As the book progressed, the proofing of it got worse and worse.  Any author who really cares does not let this happen.  It did and I took another star off.  In general, though, I will say this is a very good book.  If you don't mind the little things like I do.  If you want to read a book with no ending, words omitted throughout the book, and don't mind foreign words and phrases (or speak and read French), then this is a book you should read.