Review: Inconsistent
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 14, 2014
Let me start by saying at the heart I think the book tells an interesting story in an interesting setting.  However the execution is very disjointed.The first two thirds or so of the book are pretty rote.  Main character does some supernatural job stuff.  Main character hangs out at school and smokes with his sexy, rebel friends. Main character agonizes over whether he should commit to a woman/girl/young lady who he is hugely attracted to and who is hugely attracted to him.  Oh an main character agonizes over the dead friend who he was hugely attracted to and who was hugely attracted to who he also agonized over committing to.  Lots of agonizing and smoking go on.Then the last third of the book kind of snowballs towards the big magical finale.  Revelations happen, people are killed, Rick powers up!.The pacing just feels off.The whole high school seniors (Rick and friends) angle seemed off as well.  At the start of the book he is 18, turning 19 around Christmas.  But that is awfully old for high school unless he repeated a year (which is never mentioned).  He also mentions his friend Dave is a year older than him, Dave is also a senior (his repeating grades is never mentioned either).  It just seems off.