Review: A Novel Novella
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 10, 2013
This is my genre. For an avid sci-fi aficionado this was a great read. I loved the cover art and the entire premise held me captive from blurb to the last line. The story has a few interesting subplots right from the start that really are intriguing.The narrative moves along pretty fast and it is not long before we learn the true nature of this world. The idea that there are only a few real souls and that everyone else is just a "meat suit" designed to be a backdrop for the souls to play off of is great idea. This made me question a lot of things that we think we know about life and being alive.It is unfortunate that Mason Fiske's power comes at such a high cost to the "guardians". C. Allen Brown's world was unique and peopled with some very interesting characters, but more than that it wakes up the mind to possibilities and that is what a good science fiction book should do. It took me back to the tales of how once people no longer believed in the God's of Mt.Olympus they died.If you can read one and don't think about how the world you live in could possibly be a part of that linear process then the book was not very good in my opinion. If you like a book that transports you from the mundane to the fantastic then this is a book for you. Continuity, is a love story, wrapped in a science-fiction with a hint of action and adventure. I give it two thumbs up.