Review: Gripping and original!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 5, 2013
First i love the cover. It is just striking  and once I got into the story I thought how fitting it is. I do not agree with anything the 3 star reviewer said.. Preachy? I do not find anything preachy about this story. I wish it was much longer. Maybe  the writer is a scifi geek but don't you have to be that to jump into scifi, which is more difficult to write than fantasies or contemporaries. The plot has to be at least believable and let 's not even go into the tech terms. Freedom is not hardcore scifi. It is a well written soft scifi in a post apocalypse world. Like one reviewer said, it is indeed a breath of fresh air in the MM genre.The plot is fast paced, original and riverting. The characters are likable and sympathetic except for one rotten to the core female villain whom I wish have a worse ending. I love Jac's character and his sweetness and innocence suits this man with the most powerful even deadly psychic abilities perfectly. Paddy is equally likable with his gentleness and naivety as he discovered the sinister and hideous side of those with the ultimate authority.And now for the secondary characters but I can't even call Rob, Jac's protector, and Sam, Paddy's honorable superior, secondary characters. I find myself  liking Rob and Sam just as much when the story shifted to their views. I do not like stories told from secondary characters' viewpoints but it works here. A little niggle is that some of the viewpoints are rather short and I wonder if the writer could not have structured the flow better. But the suspenseful writing more than made up for it. The pages just fly. I really enjoy the undertone of the story which is bleak, melancholic and yet that thing called hope in the horizon,  just the right atmosphere in a post apocaplyse story. This is one exciting story and it will be wonderful if the writer gives us a sequel!