Review: Shaky start but worth the read
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 6, 2013
Titans is an interesting book that starts off trying to be more of a mystery novel than it really is. We are first introduced to our characters and are given hints of mysterious backgrounds. We then move onto various plots against nameless and powerful shadowy entities that are never fully explored.Overall the author tries to put just a little too much mystery into a story that is essentially a standard space opera with a couple of characters that have interesting backgrounds. Don't misunderstand me the novel was entertaining but so much of the book seemed focused on tangents that never really played out. It eventually starts to make sense at the end when the author decides to try and pull everything together but overall I'm left with the impression that editing could have been condensed and streamlined the story a little more. If the author wanted to do a mystery book there was no Ah ha moment and having the book start off that way was not needed and could have been restructured toward the direction the book ended up being.I really liked the ending of the book but looking back I'm not really sure "Rob" needed to have his special background in order to carry the story as it was. I think that it obviously sets up a further novel that Mr. Robertson has in mind but I can't help but wonder if the overall story idea would have benefited from just leaving him as an extraordinary every-man.I will be keeping my eye out for the next novel but I'm hoping that Mr. Robertson tries to focus his talents into a specific type of story than trying to tell us 2 different ones forced into one novel.gallandro