Review: If you like slow, then this is for you
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 15, 2012
The premise for this story - the world stops just as Mark Andrews is about to be hit by a bus - is interesting and creative. I liked the description of how objects - water droplets etc - are suspended in mid-air and how light has stopped at the time of Mark's almost demise.Unfortunately, the author fails to keep up momentum, and fails to make the most of the opportunity to dive into the mystery of why all this has happened. There is no sense of fear and urgency in the main character  which is strange. I am sure in the same position, I would be terrified but the action slides into an over-long description of how Mark chooses the necessities of life. I don't give spoilers, but the pace picks up a little after the main character wanders into a private home and becomes embroiled in the occupants lives.Mark is a likeable but passive character, though he does change some people's perception of the people around them and finally of himself. The mystery of why the world stopped is never solved, which is a pity. I cared enough to want the question answered, so was left feeling short-changed.I feel that this story would have made a better novella, with all the aspects tightened and the pace "upped".