Review: Fascinating - always wondering what's next
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 3, 2014
I actually bought the omnibus edition (books 1-3 all together), but want to review book 1, which I just finished, while it's fresh in my mind.I'm stingy with my five-star reviews, but this one deserves it. So many books are so predictable, following the typical plot arc of their genre. Maybe they have a new twist here and there, but it's really all the same. But every once in a while I discover a book in which the author has imagined things that I just couldn't ever think of and piece together on my own. This is such a book.James, the main character, wakes up in a dark world with no memory of where he is or how he got there. And from there, things just get more perplexing. This isn't one of those stories where the author is making things up just for the heck of it. I can feel that everything the main character sees hangs together somehow, but the "real" understanding of what's what, who's who, and what is really happening remains tantalizingly out of reach.The characters are easy to get attached to, and I especially enjoy the confused normalcy of the main character as he stumbles through his new, strange and terrifying reality. Around each corner lies something that may be dangerous or something that may just be wondrous. It's odd, mildly creepy, and totally unpredictable. And it works.On to book two - I can't wait to see what's next.