Review: Recommended For Lovers of the Genre
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 26, 2011
Some of the wording was noticeably repetitive in the many descriptions of "Known Afterlife", but for me that wasn't a bad point. I like the fact the author didn't oversimplify his work or streamline it with modern words and slang that wouldn't have fit the story and characters created, but sometimes the narrative read as unnecessary complex to convey an idea to me. I like what I call "immersive" fantasy like Known Afterlife, where I can easily visualize a world and dive in, so to speak, but word choice and sentence structure matching action and character movement could have helped the flow. More transitional phrases and occasionally shorter sentences at crucial points can help keep a story moving instead of slowing a reader down trying to understand intricate phrasing.I had questioned whether I might take this review request at first, as it did reference a religious theme involving a "Church of Salvation", as I prefer not to speak on any such subjects online in general. Though at times it became borderline for me, in the spirit of Frank Herbert's Dune, I felt the author created a work in which beliefs and disbeliefs are important, but conversion, doctrine and dogma weren't always central points. Known Afterlife definitely has its good points and I think it was a great effort in the sci-fi fantasy genre by an author with a unique style.Originally posted [...]