Review: Conclusion to book 1, good story with some issues
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 20, 2014
Conclusion to first story in the series.  Picks up a full year after book 1 finishes.  It references some events that sound like they should have appeared in the first book, but actually didn't.  Also, there were some holes that required some imagination to fill in the blanks, and some of the threads started up in book 1 were just dropped (some important secondary characters in book 1 were barely mentioned in this one), leaving me to wonder what happened.  Also, some new characters appeared out of nowhere, making it almost seem like a completely different story in some part instead of the conclusion to part one.  Despite that, I did like the story line enough to read it from start to finish (short, only about 90 pages).  Definitely lots of drama in this one.  It's a good story with the potential to be great with a little bit of cleanup and tie-in connections between the two books.