Review: interesting ideas
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 4, 2013
Good and evil meet at the end of the world.  When a polar shift occurs, the majority of the world has their minds wiped clean.  There is a small group, who have banded together in Utah, and they are trying to make a new community from the old.I first have to admit I am not to keen on books that are divided up into chapters and episodes.  They are difficult to review, because the work is not yet completed.  An interesting story may end up going to nowhere land.What do I like about the story?  The premise of the story is interesting, but very convoluted.  It has a lot of depth, but at this point we only have a lot of questions.  We have the ultimate evil housed in the soul of Harry Thomson.  Every evil being through time is in Harry.  It appears that it is being powered by the ultimate evil, and Harry has powers that are paranormal.A bunch of particle accelerators are being used to wipe memories in a nationwide experiment.  This I viewed as a very flimsy part of the story.  Are we really suppose to believe that the government or anyone else would pay the astronomical sums involved to run multiple particle accelerators to wipe a few minds?  It just doesn't make sense.  I can't even understand why one would be used.  Millions of dollars to make a few people forget is just not plausible.While I enjoyed reading about all the characters, I have to admit that Carole was annoying.  Carole saves the wrong man.  It wasn't Jim.  Carole and Nikki barely got out of the airport alive.  She is so concerned about Aiden and Alice; yet, she takes the time to stop by the school to help a little boy, who just wanted to eat them.  She arrives at her house, and Alice and Aiden aren't there.  She decides to head on over to Uintah.  Alice and Aiden would have left a note if they had decided to head to Uintah.  It made more sense that they never got out of the airport.  It appears that Carole is destined to be annoying and whiney throughout this story.Uintah, the cult, and the magic signal, we can see they are involved in the good, but who turned on the radio sending out the signal telling everyone to come to Uintah?  It truly looks like the ultimate evil has already been perpetrated, so what can Thomson do that is any worse?  Where is the story going?So far the story is interesting, I hope it goes someplace even more interesting.  And here is a big crossing of fingers that it isn't just a story about surviving.